We have returned to the temple to find it more desolate than ever. The priestess Shouko told us many of the guardians and amaterasu have not come back for weeks, even months. Frankly, I am suprised. I ask here where they have gone. She says she does not know, other than they must merely be connecting with their charges, and it's normal.
Caelum looks at me. He understands, I believe, that his friends, his brothers and sisters, are not here. he wriggled out of my hands, and proceeded to crawl around the temple, happy to once again be near his mother's temple. Shouko tells me there is a room that Caelum and I may sleep in a room on the second floor. I nodded to her, and made my way to the altar in the middle of the temple.
How many times had I stepped into the fragrant temple of Amaterasu? The overwheming scent of incense and smoke hung in the air. But it was welcoming. I inhaled, and I began to get dizzy. I heard Caelum's pitter patter against the wood flooring, the faint dragging of his play kimono I had bought him. It accented his features nicely, the blue tint of his skin and hair seemed more brighter.
I hardly noticed he was in the room till I felt his arms wrap around my stockinged leg. I hadn't noticed the bottom of my kimono had opened up slightly. He looked up at me, sapphire eyes glimmering with odd curiosity. He whimpered softly for a moment.
"Momma."
"....What?"
"Momma."
"Caelum." I could feel hot tears run down my cheeks and I wrapped my slender arms around him. I did not know why I was crying, or why I was so happy. I was embracing the child of another woman, who was a goddess. I understood I was chosen for a reason. I needed a child, and this child needed a mother.
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