Song of Lingit's Children- the Bird's Way
Nuriko Kamaiji
A/N: a week or so ago while I was re-reading MSAT I found myself struck by Binabik's song (and part story) about Sedda and the brief mention of the two children she kept, Lingit and Yana. (If you haven't read MSAT you might not understand this too well though I hope it's still enjoyable.) Anywho, it got me thinking about how, if humans and trolls were descendant from Lingit then he must have had many more children than Yana, the "matriarch of the Sithi". And since Lingit chose the bird's way, somehow this...simply made sense. I will admit I was a little sleepy when I wrote it but...I do like it. I'm hoping to add more on Lingit's other children later.
Boy that got long- also the lines inbetween signify spaces between paragrahps. Thank you.
Under-Ground is singing
In the deep black
Slumbering in shadows
Sleepers keep dreaming
Toumuq is guarding
Black gate to Dream-Road
Sheisut is messenger
Running along Dream-Road
Invisible spirit is she
Fox-daughter traveling
With dream-wishes
To wandering sleepers
Saw her in dreams
Toumuq's daughter
While sleeping he met her
'Stay with me always,
If you give me your hand.'
Spoke Lingit sleeping
Night-lord laying in dark
Heard Sedda's son call
Dreary, grey Toumuq
Ready to give daughter
To light's way
Away from the gloom…
Many eggs are hatching
Hatching as birds are
Break out of their shell
Fledging egg-born
Children of Lingit
Chooser of Bird's Way
Happy father is he
Lingit proud father
Seeing his children grow out
Smiling with wife
Smoothed-skin, Sheisut
Fire-red coat, fox woman
Seven hatched first
The eldest firstborn
He flew to the north
In the icy cold winds
Danced in the dew drops
Frozen on white-wings
Second child
Red-winged soared
Southward she went
Drawn to the heat
Warm light of the sun
She said it was good
Into the dawn's way
Deep past the forest
The old woods' heart
Beyond lands unknown
Third child, grey-winged
Took flight to the east
Following dusk's path
Over mountain and fen
Flew silver-wings
The smallest by far
Chasing the shadow
Of the sun as it set
High in the mountains
Secrets lay hidden
Fifth child, rust-winged
Soared to the heights
Tall in the clouds
From the bones of the earth
Sixth born, brown-wings
Flying soundless through
Woods and river
Still night watcher
He wished to keep silence
Kept to the heartwood
Running water bubbles
Coffee-winged child listens
Crying her song
Singing to twilight
She heralds the evening
Youngest child of Lingit
