Ouroboros Spine African violet

The girl’s breath was stolen.

Her spirit name.

Samani could feel it inside her. She felt it was right. She felt it was her. She knew it was a sacred thing, this name that her mother shared. Would she share the names of her little ones to them? The sea girl could not help but to imagine their bright faces. She had dreamed of them so often that they felt real.

Love poured out of her. The girl wrapped her arms around her mother’s neck and cried.

The names she had been given, the spirit names that were spoken to her then, they became part of her without asking. They were already, perhaps. She had only needed to know them. The girl could not gather words on her tongue to properly express the love she had felt for Kukutux. This decision to leave would take all her strength and fighting spirit.

We wish to call the plateau Moontide, she said reverently.

We wish it to be joined with Moonglow and Moonspear.

Their family – the sea, the mountain, the spine.