Ocean's Breath Plateau give me a scotch, i'm starving

the seawitch, caiaphas. lasher was irritated with how she had treated tachyon, and how she held captive a woman that the young wolf loved. what crime had this wolfess committed, that the ocean-wife held her so? taltos was of the mind to march down to the grotto and seek a firm audience, but donnelaith must be held together, and so instead he trotted to the water's edge and began to search for edible things.

he had found a turtle but when he turned it over, he saw with dismay that gulls had already cracked the soft undershell and pulled out its flesh. with a sigh he moved on, discovering a small shoal of fishes that had been washed up.

in silence he carried as many of these as he could back toward donnelaith, but the scent of a stranger gave the druid pause, and he laid them upon the ground, stepping over the saltlogged bodies protectively. his eyes swept the land and alighted upon the dark figure of an unknown wolf, too close to donnelaith for his liking in these wretched days of need, and he gave a sharp and warning bark.