Gilded Bay of all the things we've missed

This time spent with her father was needed. She enjoyed the freedom they shared, walking among the trees and smelling the sharpness of the air blown in from the sea.

Aiolos described the forest to the east. She wished to see it, but she understood that they did not have time to visit all the territories near the water. As they walked, Samani listened to her father speak on the plateau. Her eyes searched it curiously. The view that he described would be a beautiful thing to see, or so she imagined.

I like the sea, she shared after a patch of quiet. The girl’s lips were curved in a soft smile. Jade eyes scanned the trees and the wild beyond them. I wish we could visit more often. Or that they had a place to live by the water. She wondered why her father had left the ocean, or how he could remain landlocked in their home.