Sequoia Coast tripeka

The woman did not speak; the child turned her away. Vasa frowned, but nudged the fish closer to the pair. It looks like you need this more than I do, She said quietly, and turned away from the pair. If what they wanted was to be left alone, Vasa wouldn't deny them that.

Hers was only to bring kindness, softness wherever she could; nothing more. Vasa did not aspire to a higher purpose than this, not after all that she had seen and all that she had suffered. For now she set her sights to the south, a delay of her true purpose in these wilds — but she did not think she was ready. Not yet. The Plateau could wait; it had waited this long already.