Ocean's Breath Plateau What the Tide Took and the Ocean Left Behind

The color the sea turned, the autumnal leaves, the sound of steps in the forest. She nodded, unsure of what to say. Perhaps, hopefully, in Moontide itself, her pack, something of hers would remain. And yet it felt like each absence only made her drift farther and farther away as it settled on Heph that she was gone.

Her gaze turned back inland for a moment. There were other matters too which begged attention. "Her den...the furs and things will keep but animals might get to them soon." The pups deserved something of their mother's. She wished that it could all be left, ready for a return that might never come, and yet she did not want to see it overrun in its empty state.