Stavanger Bay white elephant in the room

When she's said her peice, the boy said his. They might as well have remained silent for all the good it did them. Anger and bitterness bubbled up in the dark woman, and she turned her head away from the other in an action that was almost petulant.

Golden eyes burned and welled with tears, but she would not let the other see her cry. Picking herself stiffly off the ground, Mannoah stalked down the beach, far and away.