Dragoncrest Cliffs Watched my welcome wear thin

a gentle laugh. but their mateship had been long enough now that erzulie knew when something else lurked beneath her wife's aura. she listened, attempting to winnow it out from the subtext of what rosalyn said. her own thoughts trailed to the same end, however, that perhaps they had been wrong. chacal adored the sea but did not trust its final word. valravn feared it and perhaps always would. both their children.
"i had de t'ought dat chacal could teach him. if anyone could do dat, it would be her." she could not order them into the sea, and would not, but valravn had reached an age where he was no child any longer. and as such, it was no longer something a maman could be given.
he must learn to lean more upon his sister with such vulnerabilities; it would be good for their bond.
"if we changed de run, what would we put in its place?" erzulie wondered aloud, knowing it did well for her pirate to puzzle things aloud.