Ouroboros Spine avaalaruk ⋕

She was ready, she had decided.

It would not be easy. It would never be easy. Yet she knew it was better for all to do these things now and not wait forever.

What she was not ready for was her mother's grief. So raw, so palpable. It was another thing she would not know as a woman who still was no mother.

Her eyes closed heavy.

She noticed now how she stood as only child of her litter.

She wanted to be here, but if her mother laid alongside bodies, then she must go help other preparations.

The death songs would be tomorrow.

She would be ready, she had no other choice.