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More sunrises would pass before Sialuk led the way to Moontide with the two boys she had raised alongside her own children. She yearned to sing the songs for her sister, to lay her to rest properly, but this could not be now. Maggak and Acrux had begun to outgrow the confines of the ulaq, their legs taking them further each day. Sialuk watched them grow with fascination. She had seen it in her younger siblings, but never before had she been so intimately involved in the rearing of another generation.

She sought solitude at her shrine today. Sixsix had brought another bone, perhaps one to even out the one Sialuk had sent with Ariadne for their sister's burial. The starwoman held the bones in their skin, wrapped loosely as she held the corners. Gently, she let them fall where they may, taking stock of what truths they might tell her. They spoke in riddles, the ancestors, and today was no different on that front.