Lake Rodney in an empty field and

"But all men are born from women -"

This was not brand new news to him, and yet he considered it carefully with a soft hum as she tacked on her question. I never learned for sure. Rumors, really. A shrug of his heavy shoulders. We were never told of their own home. The elders' best kept secret, I guess. Why? He supposed it was to keep distractions at bay.

Or...maybe. Well. He didn't dare to think that perhaps the women hadn't wanted the men, that maybe nothing was as it seemed.

I was once told as a boy that our mothers were goddesses. That is why they couldn't stay.