Ouroboros Spine sikinaasugruk

in last summer she had seen the face of this boy.

now he came to them, this dying sun who looked to callyope as if he had seen nothing brighter.

she shared the sorrows of the sun-man. three daughters gone from moonglow with their chosen. 

and yet they had not gone so far away. this consoled her heart and turned her eyes to gladness as callyope brought the strong boy before them.

home, her daughter said, and kukutux stepped to regard melaneus with warmth, though she waited for aiolos to speak, a touch of her own ancient deference.