Moonspear [m] listening to fear

It is likely you will get your wish, Sialuk said with a coy smile. I have had many lovers, she added, wanting to be as open with him as he had been with her. One is a wife, another is working toward becoming husband to me. Many have drifted away. She thought of Keen, Glaukos, and Ittuk. All three had gone away. Some with word of where they were going, others without so much as a goodbye. Sialuk knew these things happened, but they did not always hurt less.

I will go east until my time is over, she said after a pause. When the babes are born, they will be as much yours as mine.