Broken Antler Fen redmist

she did not know what to do —
she felt eventually that reyes would leave, for his mind still held his family in his head at all times.
and this caused her a certain sort of shifting low and deeply, something unknown and uncomfortable. she thrust it hastily into mental safekeeping, and brought herself back to present.
teya stepped into the water and cut directly into the current, sunwarmed by the summer heat, and soon she was secreted and half-shadowed among the sunken trunks.
a pathway of land alternately solid and half-submerged, and her gaze fell to reyes, waiting.