Ouroboros Spine summer blues

embraced in the arms of her sun man, kukutux found her mind wandering both to her daughters and to those who had gone.

there was hope in her that galana had found sakhmet, and that lote too was at peace and happy. 

she thought even of the young moon-hunter who had returned, but she was not ready to say his name.

"i have you. and you have me. and they have us," whispered the duck into the proud redfurred chest, marveling at all the years spent, all the children borne — and still their blood ran hot for one another, even as they stood upon the very precipice of grandparent trail.