Alpine Lake crystalline

he came, and eshamun turned, and looked upon him with love and desperation. she crooned his name beneath the crash of the falls; she drew near, her body aching with grief and with the strain of a fruitless childbirth, and pressed herself into his arms. a sob rose to choke her; eshamun forced it away, but it was followed by another, and another, its fellows forcing itself from her throat until she gave a strangled cry, her shoulders shaking as she sought to fill herself with ar-khalba's scent and mourn the emptiness of her womb.