![]() How, they wondered, can a body feel full to bursting with grief but also hollow? These godlings of land and air and memory resisted this loss of themselves, but River's sorrow drowned them. ![]() They forgot their mothers and their brothers and the lovers they'd promised to return to they forgot that they'd had a past before this grief removed everything form inside of them. ![]() And so they sent emissaries from every spirit realm, second daughters and minor spirits of similar powers, godlings all, promising their aid for a hundred years. This is our River, one god reminded the other, our sweet River. When, after three hundred years, the sky god dared to mention the neglected waters of the world, she dried up entire countries out of spite. She dug through entire lineages trying to find him. The army ants were too frightened to tell her what they'd done, but they did tell her that the ant god had gone to live among the humans. ![]()
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