Ouroboros Spine fires

she should not scheme so close to the dancing lights! callyope's eyes said she was a woman who now understood some sensations in mother's heart. or perhaps only saw the woman now in her mother.

"your sister is here now and i believe she is happy to be in our village once more. but she has ruled a mountain herself. she has been chieftain. her heart will call for it one day as her children grow."

a soft pause glided, until,

"the cold mountain belongs to nuiruk. but there are other places that call for a village, daughter. i see in your eyes, too, this want to build, and i smile to see it. ariadne will need you, and perhaps she may leave moonglow with you, callyope, to try once more in a sunshine way."

a pause, cool. "i do not know if kigipigak will remain here. i do not know what is in the heart of ariadne. but if she divides from her husband, many men will desire her." kukutux waved a paw. "but i do not want this. i wish to choose her next path."

she explained briefly that one day stratos had come home to tell her of two bird-girl sisters in brecheliant with interest in marrying him as one. while kukutux did not mention that one of these very same young women had gone on to marry callyope's hearth-brother, kivaluk, she alluded gently to the fact that this practice was done among other villages, other tribes.