She shook her head. "No, not yet. This is..." she paused, just for a second. "This is the first time I've brought him up from Irkalla. This is the first time he's seen the sun and the sky."
Ereshkigal smiled widely. "See how he's looking at it all? How he's taking it all in and thinking? He's so clever and bright. He always watches. He watches everything, and he thinks about it. He thinks about all of it. I think he's going to be a genius."
The pride in her voice, in her face, was utterly unmistakable. She was, in that moment, every inch the mother she'd so recently become. Then Ereshkigal turned her head to look at Enlil.