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stratos. 

mauruk would always be her firstborn boy, but this redstone son of herself and aiolos now spoke of the sunshine ways that had always been his.

and she saw he had remembered them while he was away.

the stars filled her eyes for a moment. "he wanted her, and them, to be his own people. as he did the first time. but sakhmet was not tartok. and ariadne is not tartok. i see her, stratos. she has come home to be a sunshine woman and to raise their children in sunshine ways."

there was a pensive silence.

"i am sure he sees it also. he did not sing for little fox." a rejection? stoicism? she did not know.