Boula was the middle one and they named her so after the saint that clothed and bandaged the armies of Low during the War.
Her birth had been disconcerting -- it was, in the old language, baa'er, or eclipse-like. Her older sister had been a'ehra, perfect and pure white, and then had come Boula, her entrance a maelstrom of piebald curls.
Thereafter they feared the remaining child was also to be hehrum, but his own birth was like a burst of the sun, and so Boula's birth turned from suspicious to auspicious, and they gave her the name of the one who had wiped the blood and pus from the flesh to make way for strength.
The a'ehra they named Leucan and the ohrkha they named Aucomis, and they received much praise, and were anticipated.
Thereafter they feared the remaining child was also to be hehrum, but his own birth was like a burst of the sun, and so Boula's birth turned from suspicious to auspicious, and they gave her the name of the one who had wiped the blood and pus from the flesh to make way for strength.
The a'ehra they named Leucan and the ohrkha they named Aucomis, and they received much praise, and were anticipated.
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