Swiftcurrent Creek Frostfall

Now that Eshe's season had ended, she found herself out and about more often than she had been the week prior. There was a lightness about her, and she felt though she had been unteathered from a heaviness that had been weighing her down.

She had been outside of the territory for most of the morning, and now she had returned with a small bouquet of marigold and carefully walked towards her blossoming (haha get it??? Blossoms??? Garden????) garden. On her way there, she spotted a confident looking figure out of the corner of her eye, and she looked at him.

Eshe felt a pang in her stomach the moment she saw Nicodem.

He looked just like Akavir. She stalled her steps momentarily, awkwardly watching as the child continued to stroll.