Ouroboros Spine taaqtumi ≜

Kukutux is contemplative.

Shikoba is angry in a way that makes something in her grin a cruel grin. It is not nice, her anger. Vairë boiled with it in ways she had never before. Even the angriest she had been did not hold a candle to the incandescent rage that kindled in her. But she did not speak it aloud. Her anaa did not need to hear her harshest words.

Even she did not want to hear them spoken aloud, in fact. The last severing, a final cruelty shot at the back of a sister she was sure she’d never see again. She took a deep breath, letting it simmer in her lungs, then breathing back out.

If Shikoba does go, I wonder if we should give higher roles to firsthunter and his wife. Kivaluk has proved himself many times. Came her soft suggestion, putting the mated pair before herself in the hierarchy. Vairë would hold whatever role was necessary.

Her eyes flicked to Kukutux. Was she ready to become grandmother alone? Was Vairë ready to step into the place of moonwoman? This, she did not have words for.