Ouroboros Spine saagaktuk ⊎

"she is loved."

they held one another. kukutux considered the unfairness of losing two daughters and a sister so close together. she had not seen ariadne die, but if her daughter meant never to return, then she would cut her own name from the next generation of sunshine people who would never know her.

she had not known her spirit names. and so her children would not. this bothered kukutux immensely, set her heart astir with angst and worry.

it would not be so for the daughters of the spine. "ajei will need you close, even if she is farther. be like a sister to her, galana," and then, even through her grief, a smile, "she may become this to you in the time that will follow this one."