Ocean's Breath Plateau à la dérive en mer

I don't care, was exactly what almost came out of her mouth. But the turn of his body away from her and the conclusion to their... conversation of sorts did enough to silence her. There was a moment of panic that threatened to eke its way out into the world—he was leaving, honest to god leaving her without so much as a fight. Her siblings would have pestered her further and, well, she'd have never spoken to her parents the way she had done him.

Or would she have?

It was hard to say, but Phoebe didn't dare move for the longest time. Not until she was certain that he was gone and no one else was coming to torment her in his wake. Or retrieve her from where she had plastered herself to the warm, stony earth. Only when she was fully satisfied that no one else was set to come after her did she move, and only then did she with great haste beat a path away from the plateau and further into the unknown.