Ocean's Breath Plateau Half your life you've been hooked on death

She laughed lightly as she set it down. A girl's gotta protect herself somehow, She said, but her next words turned serious. This is um - it needs some explanation.

My mother raised me on her own, but before that, she belonged to a pack with many traditions. When one of their own is lost, they make something they call a luminary - it's meant to light the way home, Marina's explanation was shy, hesitating. She'd never shared anything of her mother's culture, not with anyone. It's made with a length of wood or bone to start, but the rest is... personal. Things that represent their life, what they loved. It's usually placed somewhere outside of the territory.

I thought we could put one together for your wife, She finished, glancing down at the driftwood and then back up to Chakliux to watch his reaction.