Ouroboros Spine piqpakkun

As she named her children, the cotton grass man found it surprising that they all carried northern names. The pale man wondered how the moongirl had come to be named Ariadne and not a name that might have been borrowed from her mother’s tongue. Kannoyak knew that the Moonwoman was married to a sunman and perhaps it was the sunman’s language that had formed Ariadne as a name.

These are good names. And you are a proud mother, he commented with a smile.

Kannoyak hoped that he might meet her pups one day. It would be nice to see the family that she had created for herself, even if that family had been changed. He wondered if her children were more like her or her mate- former mate, rather.

Children must go through hardship sometimes. With your help, they will grow and learn from it. It was the way of life.