Ouroboros Spine uvlakuun ⋳

"i have missed you also."

a vast chasm yawned between them, unable to be bridged by contemplative glances nor words that bounded around the border of what should be said.

she thought of sakhmet and the love they had shared, the daughter born to their hearth.

so many lifetimes had passed since she had been a shy girl in courtfall, and yet it felt as if she remembered those moments all the more keenly.

what did agana hold back from her?

but she did not need to ask why.

they had lived together; they had shared the beginnings of another hearth and another kiss. kukutux had allowed tradition to tear her aside, and agana surely — 

"we both suffered after that night," she heard herself say aloud, and she did not know why!