Firefly Glen vuulnax ❦

with her children in the watchful care of their father, kukutux left the growing babes and @Jarilo behind for a short trek beneath the moonbow. the mountain lately, somehow, felt crowded; or perhaps the girl had grown more reticent since binding herself to the homestead. and so she left over the borders, not daring to travel further than the firmly claimed glen.

there, the girl let the ever-present strip of hareskin fall from her shoulders, and looked down at her newly-thin self in the clear surface of the pool there, lit against a backdrop of tiny glowing insects. her roundness seemed as though it had been absorbed into herself; there remained only her belly, which rippled with milk, and a lasting curve to her hips. girlish no longer. kukutux smiled quietly, wading into the half-warm waters for a silent bathing.