Dragoncrest Cliffs trembles

"pas du tout, ma colombe de sel," erzulie smiled. "do not worry," she translated, suddenly shy of the pet name and leaving it behind.
she felt her age in that moment but it was not a bad sensation; an awareness, rather, of the long experience that separated she and jorunn. and yet the other was not a girl. only young, with a young woman's determination.
or maybe it was that determination had no ageframe.
"four," she mouthed, then shook her head as if to say 'chacal will tell us.'
something only penned in ink and paper for a member of the family.