Sequoia Coast come back! even as a shadow, even as a dream.

it was useless, useless! and as he pressed against her, as his grip tightened, she began to see stars. through these stars, she saw the bloodied lips of her father; she saw thorns, reddened and dripping. once he had saved her. da-- she choked the word, gasped, lids heavy. lasher was no more, who could save her? who could hear her? foolish, to go so far from home when so weak. he was as hungry as she, surely--did he seek to devour her? thunder rolled overhead, now, as forked lightning came from the high heavens. she couldn't breathe, she couldn't breathe! and she thrashed futilely against him. was this dying? was this death? it burned--it burned like fire! and she summoned it, invoked flame as another tongue of lightning lashed against a stray tree near to them on the sands, igniting it.