Moonspear rainbows

The string of names was vaguely familiar, in the sense that Tiuttuk had definitely heard lore about them. She was almost certain her former ulaq wasn’t far from one Stingray had kept years ago, for instance. She climbed toward it, for no other reason than because it was perhaps common ground.

There was a ways to climb before they reached it, during which Treepie slanted her head toward Seal to ask, Remind me of your parents’ names? And when that was supplied and the dots were connected, she thought aloud, Didn’t your family relocate to Sun Mote Copse at some point?

Thinking about that made her think of Towhee and Bushtit specifically. Her lips drooped in a slight frown. She wondered if Seal had lived there with them, whether she might already know they were all in the wind these days. Well, her great grandmother—Seal’s grandmother, she noted—now lived with Pie’s taataa at the caldera, of course…

Anang, Sialuk, would have been the village’s leader two years ago. Now, she’s gone, and there’s not many of us left. We’re small and I’d like to say we’re mighty, but that’s just not true. This village is very quiet these days, with only a few of us diehards left, Pie mused, only one corner of her mouth twitching upward now.