Ocean's Breath Plateau avappasugjuk ⏧

It was a tragedy on all counts.

Kassuq had felt his heart plummet into his stomach, where it would sit and curdle for the next days. He had already run himself ragged in search of Galana, and just as he was beginning to accept he would never find her, another call.

Samani.

She was gone.

Kassuq didn’t know his older sister too well, he knew he loved her as any younger brother did, and in all of this he knew that he was coming out the other side at a negative loss. Two sisters, one vanished, one dead. Grief lodged in the place where his heart had vacated, and abruptly he lurched into the brush, where he would throw up his breakfast, before shakily making his way down to the beach.

There, he would see his mother, bent over the peach, quiet form of his sister, and he would come to her side. The boy looked up at his near copy, before he would settle at her side, fighting back the want to weep.