Ouroboros Spine will you burn down when i ignite the torch?

it is not truly massaraq or his other siblings by kukutux that kivaluk worries for. he trusts that the sunking and moonwoman were paragons of stability, and in them galana would find it: as kivaluk has. but sakhmet could not be stolen from her knowledge ... and this sort of ... pattern in his parents was not something unfamiliar to kivaluk.

he tries, for the moment, not to let these thoughts weigh him down; hard though it was.

he does not wish for galana to grow up with the same guilt and anger and resentment that kivaluk did.

massaraq lowers into a play bow after loudly asking? proclaiming? them to play while galana darts under kivaluk.

mindful of his size and their sizes, kivaluk playfully — carefully — pats the earth with his front paws: pat-pat, pat-pat. challenging either of his younger siblings to try to attack his paws.