Totoka River tie your tubes, idiot

@Arcturus

The ocean had been pretty magical for about three days. After that time had passed, it had become a cold and dismal place to be. She wasn’t sure just why anyone would want to settle out there. Really, who was compelled to spend an extended period of time next to loud ass water and squawking birds? Those birds, by the way… they had some great aim with their shit. Not shocking seeing as they really had nothing better to do all day than shit on people who spent time on the coast.
 
She was weary and she wanted to return home, but Piper wasn’t even sure where her home was. She recalled her conversation with Stigmata. The more she mulled it over, the angrier she became at the idea that her family had moved without notifying her or waiting for her. The more she thought about it, she imagined that they had given up on her just like they had on Lucas. But she did miss them, and she wondered how her mother was doing with only Wyatt. He was a weenie anyway, and absolutely no fun at all.  
 
Piper stopped near the edge of a river that ran into the sea. She bent to drink from it and filled her stomach with sloshing liquid. The long journey was getting close to ending, she could feel. The only issue that plagued her was where she would return to when she had completed it. Would she seek out her family in the hollow, or venture back to the mountain range in search of Stigmata? She needed a sign. She needed something concrete that would help her sort her life out.