Blackbeak Bluff wind chaser

The hawkish girl peers over the edge of a cliff at the talus slope just beneath it. She feels a hollowness in her heart and tears at the grass beneath her with restless hands.

She remembers the moribund events that had brought her here but their gravity escapes her comprehension. Many miles away her sister is turning hypothermic as she tries and fails to keep her head above the icy water - but of course Charna has no way of knowing this.

A stranger crests the hill. She looks at her with wild, empty eyes.