Ouroboros Spine sullukoppuk ∺

kukutux settled to her haunches and watched each of the babies in turn. little vairë was first to step forward. "it is the foot of a deer," she told the child in the words she meant for them all to share.

lómion came next. she dangled the thing just above his head. "brother deer ran and ran, but he was not fast enough," the duck crooned when she had set it down among them.

kausiut next. by now the curve of her paw and the look of her face was apparent. but the daytime star would not be controlled by such things. she was first to draw blood from the hock of the gift.

little wilwarin next, the sparrow-girl. a delicate smelling and she was rolling toward her sibling. kuktuux smiled, remembering how she had been entrusted to carry that child.

"taste," she said, changing her words. taste the blood and the salt of moonglow's kill.