Dragoncrest Cliffs Brilliance

merlin searched after her beginnings, and erzulie smiled somewhat. "not here. i have lived up an' down de coas'line all my life, however." ironsea. rusalka. sapphique. she supposed in that number could be counted caiaphas' first claim, and so motioned in its direction to the young wolf.
"down dat way be ankyra sound. dat is where rusalka began. an' dat way," — toward the bay where she and rosalyn had once run their crew — "was ironsea. our first. den came rusalka," she corrected into a linear fashion. "we moved back and fort', from de sea to a plateau inland, den to de moors beside de sea. a fores', and now de cliffs by de ocean. we have seen it all."