Swiftcurrent Creek when emma falls in love

Mae felt her heart beating fast in her ears. She wasn't sure if she was still angry, but she continued to rip the leaf into smaller and smaller shreds. Only when the woman spoke did she pause, just for a moment, to look back down at what she was doing.

What was she doing?

Her throat tightened and then the feeling turned back to anger and then to something worse, something that felt like the shivering of a swollen droplet of water in the moment before it falls. I am helping, Mae told her, giggling as her eyes found the woman again, and continued to rip the leaf. But there was no joy in her. Only that shivering feeling, threatening to burst.