Firefly Glen homecoming

Sialuk smiled at his observation, then shook her head at his question. It is where anaa—my mother—lives. But she brought life to me on Moonspear. This is where I intend to bring life to my own sons and daughters, now that I am woman. The raindrop was eager to see her own babes play among the slopes as she and braataa had done in their earliest days. She was eager also to know who their taataa would be, but such a thing could not be known just yet.

I cannot do this alone, and this is why I come here tonight, she said. You see? The Ostrega was not shy in her intentions. She meant to find her ugi before her time came. The year prior, she had been away from home and had hidden herself from hunters and traders, taking shelter in a group of women who worshiped the long salt lake and the moon. Sialuk had found them to be quite agreeable. The brought to her thoughts of Sapphique, of Meerkat.