#gwynnes

“On the night of the comet is earth given voice,

As five children are born, and great clans rejoice.

One to the Cats, prideful lords of the hunt.

One to the Herds—stout of heart, and teeth blunt.

One to the Bears, strong as mountains and clever.

One to the Eagles, of sharp eyes and swift feathers.

And from an egg unforsaken, hatched deep in the wilds—

One to the Dragons, the First Fire’s own child.

Five with the embers of gods in their bones,

Gone forth together to perish alone.

Five sparks and five chances to cure the earth’s veins,

Else cede them to devils as deeper they drain.”