Ouroboros Spine sisuuk ⊹

she missed the way his eyes had hardened, but the brush of his care brought kukutux slowly back to herself. she watched, she felt, even as her spirit hovered just beyond reach and arcturus filled all of her senses. 

"i —" her voice wavering. kukutux slowly willed her words to rise from the limp palate that could barely form such. "the night that i came to moonspear, you did not choose me." but her tone was not bitter, only wondering; she looked upon the face of the man she had long and silently loved, as with the blackfox, as with the trader; all of them for their own reason, and arcturus had always been the one she had never quite known.

"if you had stayed with me you might still live within moonspear. and you would have also been chosen to go to the dancing lights. i am glad you were not there," voice shaking upon the end of a sob.