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

she felt the warmth of the flames as they sought gluskap, but he released for a reason other than this. she sucked in a deep breath and gasped at the dry feeling of it, coughing and sputtering as the smoke grew thick around her. her vision was blurred as she lay on the sand, and she was sore by the others grasp and shaking of her. she did not see who had rescued her, yet, nor was she truly aware she had been rescued--only now was she coming to awareness again. the weepy eyed druid felt in utter anguish, and as she let out a fierce sound that came from all the agony she had endured, the sky parted and a great bout of rain came from a dark cloud overhead. it would soon extinguish the flames that had come, and it sought to soothe her, too. the spirits themselves rallied beside her in this way: we are with you still. she understood, was grateful...

and then she looked up. through the rain she saw him, and she struggled to rise, to move to him. but it seemed her fatigue would not yet enable her to move, and she crumpled gracefully to the earth though her eyes had never left him.