Dragoncrest Cliffs maybe spit some blood at the camera, just stay alive

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despite the ominous thunk of that final syllable, that crushing d, reverberating in her skull with devastating finality, blixen doesn't believe @Bobby until she's at the cliffs and nomi's lingering scent is thick in her nose. she fancies she can see the path nomi took through scent, the slow parade to the cliff's edge, the final moment (did she hesitate? did she think of me? or were her thoughts entirely with her end?), and then the drop.

it is a long while before blixen can bring herself to look over the edge, but there is no closure waiting when she does. there is only the sea shoving urgently at the sharp rocks below.

(for weeks she will dream and for longer she will wonder, fleetingly, though never outloud: nomi survives the fall, nomi is washed away but alive, nomi comes back to her whole.)

as if the ocean is reaching up for her too, blix stumbles back, away from the treacherous cliffside that she's always loved. the cold that had settled over her when bobby first spoke has faded, but warmth does not replace it, and no tears prick at her eyes. there's --- there's too much to do, now for feelings. instead, the fineboned leader tips her head back and bays to her packmates, heda is dead. come to the cliffs.

the next step she'll take as it comes.