Weyr Life Drabbles: Prompt word #44: "Circle"
"Carry on... I'll not be long." Leaving the loose circle of children to their counting song, C'gan walked over to the woman standing in the doorway. "Who was it this time, Manora?"
"D'fay."
"He's... was... younger than you are." Jora's age. Dead too soon, both of them. Though perhaps not too soon in Jora's case, C'gan thought uncharitably.
Manora looked away, distant. "Two less mouths to feed. With eggs on the Sands..."
New lives to replace the new deaths, until they died in their turn, an endless circle. Endless... but even so, C'gan feared it was diminishing.
"Not enough, though."
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