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acceptance.

callyope's glowing eyes were for this man sólhárr who bowed himself before she and sun man, and declared with heart upon tongue that he would do these things.

that he would bind himself to their ancient spirits.

exhale; she let out the tension she had held. aiolos worried for callyope; he suffered in a poignant silence through which there were few smiles. they must go away; they must see the starflung skies and watch the frostweave of winterbreath upon the drifts. aiolos pined for his sea.

"we will see," moonwoman murmured in sunshine, pupils reflecting the moment's intensity. with submission reserved only for sun man, she turned toward her husband, her own expression illuminated by the many years in which he had been her light.

if sólhárr was worthy, callyope would always gaze at him in such a manner — such was the second measure of this ram-kill and the fasting.

"if you may do this thing, then return in shouting and laughing," kukutux smiled, "and then we will share words of when you have the want to be married."

a wedding! a mother's heart flowering with anticipatory joy, a whisper of dawn-warm hope in a gloom that had felt so eternal.