Ouroboros Spine not today

she felt something like a shame for how much she did not know.

then felt a soft brush of gratefulness to know it now, to be trusted to carry her family along her own spine.

she wanted to ask how twins could be an omen! but she knew better than to question and spit in the vengeful eye of senda now. sedna who had already strong-armed and proven she could take whatever she pleased whenever she pleased.

quamaniq.

her heart expanded like lungs, breathing it in.

unnujaktuk.

her heart filled with ice and water, heavy and drowning.

nakitâgutik.

she could not contain it and there was a low sound in her throat. quickly stifled with a bite of her tongue. her chest hurt, it ached, it heaved. there was a heaviness there and she wondered if it was new or if she had ignored it for too long.

he is a good man to be the first one. he...he knows so much, sometimes i think i learn from him even when i am meant to teach him. she rambled and found her voice hovered in heavy air. he will know and i will be there to see them bestowed.

to make a circle to protect him, to protect whatever love he took and the lives not yet even a twinkle in the sky.