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"not so, not so, kanunik," kukutux crooned, cupping the anxious chin in her small work-roughened paw. "in this world, in this life, we do not need so much traveling. but even if it still was so, your grandmother is moonwoman and your mother is moonwoman. he must come here, this ugi," the duck declared. "your status demands more."

there were many cousins, and more to be born, and more to come of age. the moon villages were tightly bonded for the avoidance of that remembered seclusion. but it was also in their nearness that the role of moonwoman was so great: she must tend them all.

a girl of moonglow would inherit that. and as daughter to vairë, it would have been nantahala and her sisters to whom the ancient villages looked first.