Ocean's Breath Plateau avappasugjuk ⏧

Arrluk follows along the side of his brothers silently. Ajei is near, comforting to them all. His sea-green eyes sweep to his mother, though he could not seek the features of her face. There lied a grief in her which he could not bare to see. 

As they began to circle round, he sees his father back from them, watching with a silent guard's still and hollowness. In the minds of the brothers are thoughts Galana, still unfound. The unknowing was deafening. The knowing and certainty of death which lay before them now, was worse. There was no hope in this. No possibility that she may walk with them again. 

Though he could not look to his mother, he looked to Samani now. He only remembered her vaguely so, when he was still but a pup struggling to stand on his own four legs. She lay there still now, flowers tucked around, an infant pup tucked to her breast. 

Arrluk's jaw tightened and he took in a heavy breath. How long could it be before happiness might ever return to them?