Ouroboros Spine you are the moon

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shikoba would come to gently explain the tradition, to the best of her own memory. the 4 days to represent the seasons. ajei will run to the east each day, twice or thrice if she must, to ensure she grows to be as strong as her anaa. kukutux would be tasked with symbolically molding her each day of the 4, letting her touch run along the shape of ajei; this is to ensure she is shaped in the vision of the leading women of her village. ajei would only eat the simplest of foods, no seasonings of any sorts, just the flesh of the animals and the harvest of the land. on the 3rd day, ajei will have to hunt on her own, to bring something back for the village to eat, she must bury and store the kill. she would then have to bring it to her village on the 4th night, where they might finally welcome her as a woman of the tribe, and kukutux will shape her once more before seeing ajei no longer as a child, but as a capable adult-- starhunter's successor.

there is a gentle sweep over her heart, to know that her culture would not die with the clearing and not with her own death, but live within the hearts of the girls here. this was how shikoba would live on, and she leans into her sister as she must blink away her own tears.

"i will call," she murmurs softly to him, and she thinks of her wayward sons, of @Mojag and @Chiteo and her @Rodyn. "send word to moontide, to the ears of rodyn and mojag, and even if chiteo is somewhere to be found."

and let them know that they are so loved.