Ocean's Breath Plateau sweet as brandy wine

the woods where they met—the quiet place, where ghostly mist wove between the trees.

where they once wished for her brothers to be safe, and to return.

sulukinak remembers; she breathes a deep sigh but keeps her eyes averted from dutch, thinking, feeling deeply, wanting to hide it all. her brothers had not come home—maybe if they were closer to the forest she would see them?

if not them, then their spirits?

she looks to dutch, nods, and drifts along a few more steps as if to forage.