Her thoughts were pleasantly foggy later when she woke alone in her and Anara’s cot. Anara was with their children on the other cot, entertaining them as she often did. As she began to tell them a story, Kes snuggled with the blanket a little more and sighed, smiling a little to herself, content to stay where she was for now and listen to the story too. Anara’s voice was so beautiful…

”Long before the Kazon people existed, before the Eight, there were Two.” Anara began her story. ”They were Kazeron, god of the darkness, and his sister, Kazerel, goddess of the light. Like all siblings, like the both of you my darling ones, Kazeron and Kazerel liked to play games, and they danced and sang songs and, one day, they thought to try to make beings other than themselves. Their great and terrible powers crashed together in a storm of creation, and from it were born the second Two. They were Zonara, goddess of life, and Jalaris, god of fire.

”Like their older siblings, Zonara and Jalaris, in time, came to think that they could do what their older brother and sister had done, and so they brought their powers together and so was born the world of Kaze – of fire and of life. And of Kaze, so also were born Razal, god of stone and earth, and Harasail, goddess of water and sky. And, in time, in their turn, Razal and Harasail brought forth the youngest of the Eight sibling: Perila, goddess of the forest, and Kajet, god of animals.

”Life on Kaze was peaceful, but stagnant, with no one to whom the siblings could relate to as deeply as they could with one another, so they decided to come together and create a new form of life – one that came from all of them equally. And so the Kazon people were born. And so we each need that which we were born from to survive: light, darkness, fire, life, stone, soil, water, air, the fruit of the forest, and the flesh of animals. All must be present for us to live, and all must be in balance for our people to truly thrive. So too, do we need both men and women to live together, in balance, just as the Eight have always done. And so, the Eight set this responsibility before us, to tend to the world they created and gave us to live upon, to always keep it in balance, and to always honor their examples to us.” Anara finished.