The Sentinels all the innocent who suffer

tagging @Emaleth for reference. hoping anyone who saw which way emaleth went will join!

in the chaos of the afternoon, when the locusts descended upon donnelaith and robbed it of all that was good, lasher dashed madly about to gather his family close. deirdre was saved, though she sobbed brokenly for her flowers -- he counted again and thrice more, but he knew that they were missing one of his witches.

"emaleth!" he shouted into the tumult of insects and the loud hum of their wings, his voice filled with trepidation and with anger that his belov'd forest should suffer so! leaving behind the pale child in the guardianship of tachyon, taltos laid back his ears and began to press through the crush of locusts, grimacing as they died in writhing slime underfoot and gnawed at his ears, filling them with the deafening vibration of their destruction.

"emaleth!" he cried again.