Broken Antler Fen pleisosaur

no, she did not want to meet them.
not with ibis' swift, quick, sweet rejection? was it that? ringing in her head. she did not resent their existence; she saw whatever little bodies come from the auspex' own as an extension of the woman she loved, beholden to no man.
brecheliant's children.
but this did not mean that their mother was free in the same way.
"yes," she said thickly, swallowing and putting a tolerable smile to her mouth. "i need better memories."
ibis, in the moonlight; the scent and taste and feel of her.
ibis, in the snow, the graceful tilt and litheness of her limbs.
"thank you," she said softly in the next moment, caught with a genuine touch to her soul that despite her own confusion, the woman seemed solid in her trust of teya.