[colour=MintCream]"Hey, grandma!"[/colour]

Whisper's memories were interrupted by the voice of a youngling. Her core form rested in a meteor cave she had concealed with noctus fronds; The very same, had they known it, that Toun had left her in so very long ago.

There was no chance that they had found her by accident. Her fluorescence was now too dim, too mingled with the inky brown blood of Jvan, to be seen at any distance. She shuffled Toun's calligraphic mark to a nook of her core form where it would brighten up her surface more visible without being too obvious itself, and drifted from her place of pondering.

Four of them, two of Stellar's line, one of Wander's, one of her own. [colour=MistyRose][i]"Hello, Melody, hello Twist,"[/i][/colour] she greeted individually. It was one of the quirks they came to see, her ability to remember every name in Lex. [colour=Ivory][i]"Hello, Auricolor, hello Dust."[/i][/colour]

The children giggled and her heart melted for them.

[colour=GhostWhite]"Can you sing us a lullaby?"[/colour] said Auricolor.

[colour=Honeydew]"Stalk said she ran out,"[/colour] said Melody.

[colour=AliceBlue]"And [i]then[/i] she said that she learned all of hers from you!"[/colour] finished Twist.

Whisper let herself wave a little as if deciding. If she moved her light around her body, it made her look better than she really did. [colour=LavenderBlush][i]"Oh, alright,"[/i][/colour] she said smilingly. [colour=MintCream][i]"How about I make up a new one, just for you?"[/i][/colour]

The daughters all made eager commentary, all but Dust, who pretended to be lost in awe while she stared at the murk within her great-grandmother. Whisper knew she was her own.

A long few moments wait until the children's demands piped down. [colour=GhostWhite][i]"This one,"[/i][/colour] she opened, [colour=GhostWhite][i]"is about Galbar."[/i][/colour]

The four change-eaters wormed their way into the folds of her body for warmth, Twist wrapping herself in a frond. The story began.

[right][url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsGImN4Mkcs]Eevee- I wonder if we're dead[/url][/right]

[colour=Honeydew][i]"In quiet days,
There was a time
Of silent Rings
And untold rhyme[/i][/colour]

[colour=Ivory][i]When Sister's ways
Were still to come
When nothing sings
And Lex was dumb.[/i][/colour]

[colour=MistyRose][i]'Twas not up here,
Between noctus frond,
That we began
The Sister's bond.[/i][/colour]

[colour=AliceBlue][i]On Galbar dear,
Our story starts
Where waters ran,
God made our hearts.[/i][/colour]

[colour=LavenderBlush][i]First there was one,
One Diaphane.
One joyful voice,
Between the rain.[/i][/colour]

[colour=MintCream][i]She had her fun
Within the sea
And made the choice
To craft us three.[/i][/colour]

[colour=GhostWhite][i]From Firstmother,
Did Stellar rise.
Then Wander, too,
And Whisper wise.[/i][/colour]

[colour=MistyRose][i]A third of her
A sister each.
And say it true,
For this I teach:[/i][/colour]

[colour=Honeydew][i]She lives on still,
Within our reach.[/i][/colour]

[colour=Ivory][i]In Lex's light,
We came to be.
We live here now,
Above the sea.[/i][/colour]

[colour=LavenderBlush][i]But when we fight,
When we draw blood,
We travel down,
Into the mud[/i][/colour]

[colour=AliceBlue][i]Where Grandma First
Her teeth first bared
Her tails first whipped
Her claws first shared.[/i][/colour]

[colour=GhostWhite][i]We do our worst.
The spirits bleed
As they are ripped
Their Flickers freed[/i][/colour]

[colour=MintCream][i]And so we feast
On bodies fresh
The earth we burn
Its crop we thresh.[/i][/colour]

[colour=Honeydew][i]From west to east,
Lex hears our song.
The world will turn
And we live on,[/i][/colour]

[colour=LavenderBlush][i]So thank God, daughters,
For a rich life long."[/i][/colour]

The children were quiet. Melody, Twist, and Auricolor had fallen asleep. Dust was still listening.

[colour=AliceBlue]"That was a lovely story, Whisper,"[/colour] said she.

[colour=GhostWhite][i]"Thank you."[/i][/colour]

[colour=Honeydew]"Can we have another one?"[/colour]

Whisper looked closely at the child. She was still fascinated by the Jvanic stains that riddled her ancestor. She'd fall asleep after another song, but she couldn't help trying to stay awake until she'd figured out what they were. For a moment Whisper was silent. The two of them were so similar.

[colour=Honeydew][i]"Maybe one day you might find out, Dust,"[/i][/colour] she answered, no longer talking about the song. [colour=Ivory][i]"But I can't stay."[/i][/colour]

[colour=MistyRose]"Oh,"[/colour] said Dust. [colour=MintCream]"Goodbye I guess."[/colour]

Whisper carefully left the sleeping children behind and waved farewell, dissolving as she did.

The story had been formulaic. Most Lexite lulls were similar in tone and content. Whisper knew that well- There wasn't a song she hadn't sung, and she'd authored more than half of them. 

The longer she thought about it, the less moral her poems seemed, the more guilt piled on every time she repeated them for her children- The more contaminated her body became.

She looked down at the bright red sigil, then up towards the blue glow of Galbar. She made a decision.

Drawing energy from the sepia blood until her whole body seemed to reach the point of igniting, Diaphane Whisper kicked off against the vacuum and shot towards the planet, tails streaming. Only Dust saw her go.

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