Totoka River faience

And from the island came Huā, the empress who still held her own throne. These days felt like the calm before the storm, the days in which she could 'relax', if you could call her regular duties relaxing, before missions would be executed. As she came upon the shore Huā shook out her furs, partially wet from the knees down, and the winter chill seeped into her bones. She shivered, wishing suddenly she was back in her den among the trees, far from the wide open shore, as much as she loved it in the summer. But it was out here that some unfamiliar sound caught her attention- and she swiveled her head, towards where the snow lay, and he too- but the distance from him and his pale golden touched furs only made him blend in as a spot of yellow snow, which she ignored. If only she had seen the gleam of his ocean gaze. Hello, is someone there? She called out loudly over the blowing winds, squinting again as air rushed into her eyes.