Ouroboros Spine kiptaitchuk ⩷

The story about the "eternal wisdom reflecting in the infant's eyes" was not about Kausiut. Not at the present moment anyway. Her tiny brain, yet not molded by too many wrinkles and folds, where they say that the wisdom hides in, was not burdened by any particular thoughts. She did not yet realize her as an entity with a personality, because her most important day-to-day concern was survival and learning the essential skills to fulfill that grand plan.

Progress so far (reluctantly admitting that Kukutux had a say in it and this was not Kau's sole accomplishment):

1. Not freeze to death - Check!

2. Learn to suckle - Check!

3. Beat her sister to the best teats (good thing there were four to each of them) and push her away, if she happened to be at the best one - Check!

4. Be very vocal about every discontentment, until instant relief is given - Check!

5. Master hearing - uh, oh, Check?

6. Master sight - WTF is that for?

7. Master movement - Work-in-progress!

So - she was ordinary in every sense of the word, save for that little piece of god hiding inside her head. The one that took over that slumbering, unconscious puppy brain, opened that single, functioning eye again and stared long and hard at the woman towering over her child.