Moonspear never be so kind you forget to be clever

If you are singing for our sister and niece with your heart, they will go be carried to the dancing lights with ease, Sialuk assured her. She herself had not yet reached a year when she had sung the songs for so many who had fallen upon the mountain on that fateful day. It was not the words or the notes that carried her kin to the afterlife, but the feeling in her heart.

It will be many long nights. Sleep well when you are not singing the songs, and eat well before you begin them. Drink cool water to soothe your throat. Sialuk wished she could be there with them, but her mourning would come later, on her own. For now, she would remain here with her nephews and see to it that they were properly fed so that they would live long, happy, fulfilling lives. If their birth mother was not here, Sialuk would stand-in for as long as she needed to to give them a good start on life.