Broken Antler Fen spindledown

teya bathed, and when she pulled herself from the water, her time had come and she stood upon the bank burning as if she were the proverbial bush of old.
moses-resolute then, shaking lakewater from her fur and shivering from more than the cold air upon her soaked body, searching near-frantically for @Bridget in a morass of desire and fear that being alone and caught unawares might invite the crisp threat of a man bringing the unwarranted threat of children for which she was not ready.
teya fair scampered through the fen, widewater gaze swinging for danger and for the red-masque.