Ouroboros Spine pinched

how many?

they might be good moments, but they would not be long. not when he must also give those moments to other wives. and the time spread among children too!

maybe she should not think so terribly, but she wished she might know him as she imagined him. only it could not be him.

a seal hunter was not a sunshine person, such could not work the other way too.

i know now, she whispered with a gentle nod. i only wished — for happiness, to be wanted. perhaps her mother had been correct the first time and callyope had only looked to him as someone soothing her hurts.

i have not known a man’s company. she confessed to her mother now, but without any sheepishness. i worry that it means i will not know their charms when i see them, that i will be too quick to settle and confuse love for…what it isn’t.

maybe that was why her mother had suggested safety and familiarity.