Dragoncrest Cliffs may queen ode

erzulie could not help the hard look of grief which passed over her features for a moment. "my daughter, mireille. she was swept — away. after de las' storm." she faced avicus now, refusing to weep.
tears meant that her hope was gone. and for now it was still present within her, fierce, defiant.
a land of women who had lost a daughter of the sea.
"so we have been searching for her. i t'ink she may have been taken. it has been ten days."
or was she only in denial?
erzulie did not tell avicus of rosalyn's lapses, her slipping. they were friends, but she saw no reason to give away sapphique's shifting.