Wheeling Gull Isle mouhai

ava was reticent. the boys were growing stronger. dinah had made herself part of the land. 
and heda was thoughtful, looking out to sea. in time she would rise, and as she often did, she would search out all eight of her children, as if in the very act of glancing upon their faces she might assure herself they still were.
and to god she called now, silently, asking for his help in dispelling the enmity she felt had crept onto their sacred island.
a long lope sent heda off in a patrol.