Ankyra Sound and not just the muse

Maybe @Meerkat because I can't help myself ;P but all welcome if she can't make it!

The coast was not horribly far from the Rise, in truth.

He supposed he had just avoided it with the absence of Marina. Not to mention the arrival of the children had given him much reason to stick closer to home. Yet they grew too, also eager to escape his grasps when they could.

He found a churning void in him as he stood here, staring out into the water and the islands he knew little about. Druids, Marina had told him.

But she trickled from his mind too as he thought of Meerkat. How bright she had seemed and how well put together, diplomatically, she had spoken. She had three children to tend to of her own and yet she had also been out on the ravine that day.

He cut his path towards Sapphique and wondered if he might catch sight of her on the way home.