Two Rivers Isle her own kimchi recipe

for @Ulrich <333

winter always looked the same to iseul. the trees lost their foliage and the bark would sometimes get peeled by scavenging herbivores in search of food. her parents would bring kills in from the caches, and her sister would sleep close by where her snores could echo through their den. the snowflakes were the same. and the wind still howled as it did before. the bitter cold nipped at her nose, and her breath plumed like dragon's smoke as she exhaled.

but the winter here was different, for iseul did not have her family with her this time. and truly, it scared the young girl to her very core. while she was certainly old enough to be on her own, she could not deny the comfort that was held in her mother's fur or in her father's gaze, or even in her sister's voice. everything that seemed so trivial and small was swept away, and the girl was left groveling for allowing herself to become ungrateful for all she had.

dewdrop sat alone tonight. and while snowflakes did litter the ground and her own coat, she did not waver. the clouds covered most of the sky, but when iseul found an empty piece of the night, she looked for the stars. and perhaps the last piece of comfort that iseul would have is that the stars were unchanging. even thousands of miles away from her family, they were looking at the same stars at night.

iseul sent her love to the stars and moon tonight, hoping and praying that it would reach someone in her heart.