Dragoncrest Cliffs Sea by and by

He answered as if he knew her thoughts. She looked at him for a moment and had the paranoid thought that he might be a ghost, or some figment of her failing mind. But it passed when he finished with a sentence so mundane, there was no way he was anything more than a wolf.

You'll do well here, if that's true. Sapphique is not kind to ambitious men. She smiled with a glint of the old bloodthirst. She and Erzulie had run off each one who sought to displace them. That would not change just because Rosalyn no longer held court.

No family, no home, and ties to the sea. You are a true sailor then. Rosalyn looked at the waves, then wondered....

She was not interested in his answer. She just wished to know if he had one. You are from a coast? What do you recall of it?