Ocean's Breath Plateau So drop a bomb on all the things we dreamed about

Tags for ref, making some assumptions <3 All welcome!

She'd been busy since finding @Carlisle, ensuring that her son was fed and comforted, rarely taking eyes off of him. But he did not seem inclined to part from Moontide again. After a few days, Marina began to relax. Something like acceptance settled over her; a bitter thing, the realization that she may never see her daughter again. She would not stop searching, not ever. But it was time to begin the painful trudge forward.

She started to think of the future.

@Chakliux; she had come to love him, she realized. She'd come to see in him all of the things she desired for her own future.

All but one.

Marina idled through the plateau, nose dipping to take in the scent trails running across it. But she was deep in thought. Her desire for marriage had gone unanswered over long months, and now, and now —

One of three; more, perhaps, if he ever asked her as she sometimes wished he might. Her heart raced at the thought but it lurched, too, so painfully that all the butterflies in her died and fell into something heavy at the pit of her stomach. He was stability, he was safety — but he was not the only one, was he? Her thoughts turned then to @Rodyn, unbidden; freshly a widower, maybe not even of a mind for marriage any time soon. She would never ask it of him.

But in him she saw a need that she did not see in Chakliux; a space unoccupied; a future secured. There was no passion in her for the alpha, who she had never meant to see as more than a friend, and maybe there never would be.

Still, it was Rodyn she looked for now.

Passion had only ever led her astray.