Dragoncrest Cliffs Toujours

the obsidian too noted how the children seemed — particularly averse to one another. making a mental note to take them aside, or perhaps with chacal at another time, mireille set her attentions on making this yet another fine ceremony for their pack.
suzu and raelle were given their own once-over, the red woman attentive to her sister's perceptions. they had become a well-working and intuitive team, and on her better mornings she felt that erzulie and rosalyn would truly be proud of their daughters.
chacal's voice began soothingly, and mireille leant into the magickal sirensong that her sister had cultivated to lustrous silk over the years.
a smile dazzled for coraline, returned to their fold, and she was pleased to see that chani appeared to have accepted the newer woman as one belonging to them.
oysters, pearls; she was filled with a girlish delight for the moment to come when she could join them in their playful searches.
chacal paused their ritual, however, looking knowingly to mireille. there was a rejoicing in her heart as she stepped into the place before their assembly, sweeping them all with a warm look before she settled on the man who had dedicated himself entirely to sapphique, to them.
"@Val," mireille grinned, "come here." her eyes took him in; she tried to keep all from her gaze but the proper affection for his loyalty. and perhaps she would be successful, and perhaps for a moment's iota she would let something tiny shift because she could not allow it to smother without a breath.
"sapphique has stood strong wid your streng't, val. after — after we had to rebuild  de life we had, you have always been t'ere. you do not waver an' if you fear, i donnae see it." he was a granite stone upon the edge of a warm beach, sentinel as much as the blackpines which feathered their scent upon the crisp air.
"de children love you, an' from you dey will be able to learn so much. you be family, val, eternal an' steadfast as we have all been in sapphique."
her emerald eyes shone with a teasing light, a wry look as she softly challenged, "be aventurine to us. to all of us. a stone which holds de sea. a stone dat is immovable."