Ocean's Breath Plateau taimma ➻

The silence sweeps between them once more, and she quails, the slight shift of her body catching in his periphery and drawing his attention from the lightly spattered stone beneath their feet. He sees that she clutches the skin across her shoulders tightly, and that she is shaking, and without considering how she might feel - moves abruptly closer so that he may share the plush of his coat. Revui swept to her side as if imbued with the force of the storm, himself a gathered cloud, eager to stave off the worst of the bitter wind.

It struck him suddenly that she was here, in the nowhere-space where he belonged, rather than upon the mountain with -- he could not finish that thought. The pang in his chest came again, a pounding, like a war drum.