Blacktail Deer Plateau did you really ever think I gave a damn about you

she shadows her mother, absorbed in her own thoughts. her brother is gone, and the home she'd only just found again is claimed by the sea. above all, she wants only to understand—will the thundering of the earth never cease? will the sea claim more than just the sound? 

she pauses besides her mother as she too halts, made to feel small by the distant fury of the ocean. sitting, and drawing her limbs into herself, she asks, "will we stay here?" places don't matter, nowhere is safe. she cares only for the rest of her family.