Ouroboros Spine i loved you like the sun

Helpless, breathless, her head spun as though on an axis. She reeled beneath the weight of it all, to know that this was how it was meant.

A lesson, perhaps. To understand suffering so she could stand here and accept this, accept the mantle placed upon her shoulders, help carry the weight. Once upon a time, she would have buckled beneath it.

Now, she held it steady.

Moondoe looked to moonwoman with a smile, a wavering one with salt streaking her cheeks, but one all the same.

I will look, but I will not hunt. Came the choked agreement, before Vairë ducked her head to hide in Kukutux’s chest. Solemn, muffled, she spoke once more.

I will learn everything you wish to teach me. I will make you proud of me. Leading Moonglow would be the greatest task she ever undertook, but it was as anaa said.

Moondoe had plenty of time to seek out Sunstag. It was only a matter of time.