They were motivated to prove themselves among the many other progeny of THE Dissolved Progenitor!
Since they were near their father, the signal translated itself to them as they knew! They wouldn't tell the others just yet as if they could take part in the weavings leading directly to his return...wouldn't they be that much closer to him?
Lifthrasir's mother let go of her hand, slowly. She rose from her knees for the first time since Lifthrasir had entered the garden, tall and cracked and full of quiet lightning.
" You should go with your sisters," her mother said. "Help them find it. Bring it home to your father, and make sure nothing stands in the face of your dreams. Anything that does...needs to be destroyed."
Her thumb brushed once beneath Lifthrasir's eye, where the tears had been. "Our dream is closer now than it has ever been. All of ours. Yours too."
