Whitefish River flares like a supernova

the earth under foot was swampy, soft and threatens to suck her toes into the pliable mud with each step. praimfaya is frustrated. she is hurting over the loss of not just her mother but verx, and she is angry. oh so angry! but she remains uncertain of where to direct her anger. should be at the sea crone whom hadn't been lying about verx's murder? or should it be at those easthollow wolves that she pinned for his murder? and now ...now kaistleoki was gone from this place and with them, she assumes, dragomir and isi. unlike her mother, praimfaya's always had a good grip of control on her emotions ...but she stares at a broken treelimb with an intensity that could've burnt it to ashes would she have been capable of willing it to be so.

why stop with one of them? she thinks. maybe the sea crone was right — she still needs to speak with the wolves of easthollow for herself ...not that she expects them to admit to his murder either way — but why should she stop with easthollow if the crone's words were true? why shouldn't she and her roankru just raze rusalka to the ground while she was at it? jus drein, jus daun. blood must have blood. had she not already promised she would go to war against rusalka prior to meeting their crone of a leader anyway?

she swipes at the broken treelimb with a low growl of irritation in a burst of hot anger that she's been so careful to hold onto. she hopes that kaistleoki's disbandment or relocation might serve to buy isi time but the fact was that the sea crone seemed pretty obsessed with her and suspects that she wouldn't stop until she's found her. praimfaya hears dacio's footfalls — not really caring if her klikalida saw her break of cool facade or not. i hope it's bought isi some time... praimfaya expresses with a small slump of her shoulders. but she's still in danger and i no longer have the advantage. she scowls, turning to face away from the destruction of the risen river to look at dacio then.

what would blodreina do? praimfaya asks herself ...and for once she doesn't have an answer. giving up was out of the question but she genuinely doesn't know where to go from this dead end.