Ouroboros Spine fires

The options were endless!

All is not an answer is it! Her voice was warm and comfortable. She knew that when she grew tired her head must lay somewhere. Yet still she wanted to walk among the lands from salt to ice.

A woman of the village did not often walk so far for so long, did she?

She knew that she was meant to be near here, though. Near the home of her sister — and her brother! Had he taken a wife? Did he carve himself the role of a hunter?

Would he want to make the mark as a hunter upon a village?

Send him far. Tell him to bring me things from the hot lands that I have not seen to be brought in use of an ulaq. In that way I will know he can survive it and that he may provide no matter where we walk.

Her face flushed! She knew her mother may ask for more, may have specific things she sought. Yet Callyope showed her heart here in these wantings.

She did not mind a traveler, as long as they knew an ulaq as home.