Moon Maiden
A battle ends in the space between the stars, and two brothers recoil from the source of their conflict, content now to lick their wounds. The Dreamer returns our vision to Night, happy to stay here for a time, and show his dreamers what is to come.
We see Selene, the first Daughter of Night, the eldest of Carrot's children. She rests on a stump her section of the wood, where the Lunar Moths leave their legendary dust, letting the moonlight play between her fingers. It moves as she does, twirling like a vibrant mist, illuminating the forest as she pleases. Selene is content to play this way for a time, allowing her mind to wander...
Then she begins to sing.
It is a haunting song -- the kind that would draw a man to the forest, and never see his return. But it was also beautiful, sung from the heart by a maiden of the moon. The moonlight responded, dripping like water instead of mist, but sticking to her skin, allowing the light to be worked in her hands. What is amorphous becomes a thread, and that thread soon becomes a spool, and as that spool is complete, another finds its place beside it. The Haze speeds us along, past days and weeks of work, Selene leaving for only short blips of sped-up time.
In the end, there are twelve spools of thread, one for every Daughter of Night... And then a thirteenth, far different from the rest, which is half as bright. In fact, it looks half complete, as if Selene had given up along the way, but her satisfaction at the result is evident.
Harvest -- Daughter of the full moon, closest to Day -- came to take the special thread, and Selene kept the rest. She walked deeper into the woods, where the mist hung low around her ankles, to where another sister lie in waiting. Noelani -- Daughter of the mist -- took the threads in silence, and skipped into the depths of her domain, leaving the vision behind...
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