Ouroboros Spine saahmlagil:⨮

She listened.

She stewed.

She could not fathom all of it. What if they returned here and found the village gone? They would not know where Moonglow had wandered to. Callyope's heart hurt, not a new sensation in the slightest.

She had buried her pain with the ivory but this felt new.

It was not uncommon that she spoke in thoughts against those now. Growing in a way that cut through the grain of Moonglow, but did not disregard it fully.

Who will watch over the village while we are away? Will others not move in our absence as well?

Moonglow had always been here. An eternal figure among the lands, a place she always returned to.

Now they wished to spend a season elsewhere.