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I'm so glad you continued From Sleep to Swift Fury! I love how Uinen's hair remains as a token on Ossë's wrist as he slowly accepts her efforts. Glad he gets to enjoy the Children for what they are, rather than just for something he can terrify.

Some days just screamed for storms and violent waves - Some days are like that! Maybe that's why the Children are a bit wary of Ossë, because they ultimately know that he's just as changeful as they can be... XD

I think Uinen the Oblivious and Ossë the self-torturing are among my favourite pairings :D Theirs is a journey of learning - and not only about the world and the Children...

Ossë could never be tamed, not truly, and it'd feel wrong to make him too docile... waves are not docile for any long stretch of time, after all. Uinen is deeper waters, but she, too, delights in roiling currents and violently crashing water - it is a game, to them, even if she is a little better at realising the Children are there(or caring, perhaps, at first). I feel that the first interactions between any Ainu and any Child would be excessive or extreme on the part of the Ainu in the mind of the Child, simply becase their experiences of the world around them are so vastly different. I try to celebrate that sense of difference and disparity when I write Ainu. They're not purposefully malicious, but they can 'forget' that the Children really are very very small in comparison to their own whole beings.