Redsand Canyon harvesting

she rushed forward to embrace aquene, though gently.

"it is good for my heart to see you. the vale is beautiful. it is more than you can imagine, and filled with so many new plants i cannot count them all." she motioned to the wrapped bundle she herself meant to gift. "i brought some of them for you to identify and add to your wisdom."

of course she would walk with the other. aquene was lovely as ever but seemed older than tamar. wiser in a secret, satisfied way she would not yet understand. "was it very hard?" she asked, alluding to the birth.