Earth People

Flames, curling around sticks. Pan out to a circle of firelit faces, sparks flickering upwards. Beyond, the shadowing of trees.

(//the following enter one-by-one, then all at once//

Nelt: mumbling Great Spirit, directions, grandmothers and grandfathers, spirits of this land. Thank you.

Velvet: shining All moments of ecstatic pleasure, all moments of fullbodied presence, all your rite.

Mary: humming Sacred, sacred, sacred time.

Blakkat: enunciating So mote it be.