these mountains you carry

"Come for a walk with me?" Normally this sort of thing might have come from the lips of a fellow demigod - more specifically, the demigod tangled in Remi Taliesin's arms while they snooze away the night on their houseboat. But this time the words are spoken by Ludo, deep in the depths of the Dreaming, summoning the Lullaby from wherever he has been whiling away his unconscious hours. When Remi appears, it will be to see Ludo in its preferred form for its chosen; a child, dark eyed and dark haired, in rags with blackened fingers and toes. It holds up its hand to the Lullaby expectantly, and around them the world bleeds into spectral forestry, splashed with colour like a toddler spilling paint. LUDO Braved the forests, braved the stone Braved the icy winds and fire Braved and beat them on my own