Ouroboros Spine i am the one thing in life i can control

"i went to the ice mountain. i offered shikoba and ajei or chickadee and kivaluk, as sunshine people. he wished me to choose a leader from among them. it would be shikoba, surely, but —" a sigh.

"he said then that no moonglow ones should be sent. that he would seek his way alone. and that when the sun comes again, if moonsong stands, then i will teach them how to follow our ways."