Tormented Tarns Innocence gone but it's not forgot

She had gone away without a word. With her had gone @Yrsa and yet, on this return, it would have been two months since the mother had seen her own daughter. Somewhere between those two points was a loss, a mourning, and a story.

One which Sanja held close to her heart, without anyone to tell. By now she knew she was cursed. The tarn sprawled around her, frigid tangles of withered once-green vine and sedge; and she slogged through it as if arisen from the depths.

Ruined, all of it. Ruined and empty, now.