Ocean's Breath Plateau of shadow and flesh

Nothing at all.

Marina felt —

And there was the sea, and there was the icy rain gently falling into the sand, and there was the scents of her packmates twined through the territory, and a skittering shrew and an errant feather on the wind. And life went on all around her, and she felt —

Hey, The word fell from her lips without thought when she spotted the boy. She did not let herself think about Chakliux. Instead she smoothed her damp fur, always damp now that she spent so much time in the water. No one could know what had happened. I don't think we've met. I'm Marina. Feigned normalcy. And there, the clouds shifting in the sky, and there, hints of platinum in the boy's dark fur. Anything, anything to avoid thought, to avoid grief and shame, or pity in the eyes of all those who saw her.

No one could know.