Ouroboros Spine ⟸ algaak ⟹

would love @Sakhmet to post next! then puppies & dad <3, then aw! @Sialuk, @Samani, @Metis (vaire) would all be welcome as part of the womens circle even though theyre not in MG <3

kukutux nuiruk expected the pains when they came.

her body for a week had whispered that her children were ready. with the studied ease of an experienced mother the moonwoman had gone out to walk, to walk, to walk.

but she had not expected the crush of pain which drove her down to her knees before the ulaq shared with her sun man and fire-starter. a slow dance; a rolling of pelvis toward earth as she sat up, head tilted back and belly hardening steadily.

inhale; stay back, monster from the sea

inhale; stay back, those who would come for them

inhale; the thought of sakhmet

eventually moonwoman returned to the ulaq but she did not find relaxation.

it was for her grandfather at last she cried, in the old unsaid words of the sunshine island, aware of those around her but with eyes affixed elsewhere and then shut;

her heart pounded ancient drumming; blood rushed with familiar anguish and then pressure, splitting her into bone and sinew and moondust.

@Massaraq, born first, the steady flow of winterdeep ice against the duck's wilted feathering.

scarcely time to cleanse him, to think of the roil of deep blue water before @Kassuq joined his brother in a welter of fluid and beneath the guttural grunts of long breaths taken by his mother, the calm of white frost upon lapping ocean.

two sons.

her head swam; she whispered words for their souls.

but from the cleaving sea of the duck's body came a third; he cut from her bones and rolled heavily against his brothers. @Arrluk, salt-wolf between the ice nature of the first two.

massaruq, slate-grey; kassuq pale but for a shock of aiolos' coloration upon his name; arrluk marked by striations of black and white.

oh! but more; her voice called for the sun man as her eyes looked for sakhmet.