and the eager pack lift up their pitchers

Origin is meant to, supposed to, slide together in two slick halves - if, that is, slick can be used to describe two ossifying, fragmented semiarcks that cannot actually be ossifying and fragmented because they're built in bricks and arches and keystones of light, pure light.

Yes, well. There's time for a more extensive, delicate, long-winded description later, much like the one Nia gave Ouroboros, Melia supplementing.

Right now, Melia's thighs are plush and strong, toned from practicing that infernal kick, and Nia's ears tickle between her nigh-obsessive ministrations; Melia's breathy gasps are light, pure light, and she is eternally young.