Sun Mote Copse secret crowds

Nasamiituuq took in a quick breath. I have been thinking. If the - the children are mine as much as yours, they should be raised with some of the sunshine ways, too. The ways of my people, she was pleased to find that her voice did not waver at all. It was not an easy request. It will be their heritage, too.

Long ago she had resigned herself to the reality that she would not have children, would never pass on the traditions of the sunshine people. A midwife, but never a mother. This was all foreign to her — but she intended to commit to it fully, now that it had been chosen.

And they had already ignored so many of her own traditions in the process.