Together, together, together.
This is how it starts.
One of them went to the water, the other in the ground. Their bodies disappeared, the trappings of flesh and muscle melted away. They were left with the simple things, the greatest things. Hunger, desire and love.
The people duwenhe – grieve – for their lost children. They believe it is over. But not for the girl, Merryn, and the other, Claud.
There is a song that calls them down, in the end, bys vyken. It goes like this:
‘I will meet you in the ground, my love, between the roots and the sand and the silt.
I will hold you near and beside, my love, together our bones shall meet.’
Can you see? Now, they are one.