Ocean's Breath Plateau Throw this year away like a bad luck charm

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@Tullik was with child. Marina observed the changes in the mountain-spirit woman with fondness, sharing with her what she knew of pregnancy as each new development arose. She spent her days busy within the lodge, learning what it meant to be wife to a seal hunter.

She had not acknowledged the changes to her own body. Instead she lived in an odd and precarious state, denial and hope and guilt and anticipation equally. She wanted this. She wanted it, but it meant facing hurts she had buried months ago, her own failure to protect the first children she'd brought into the world. Carlisle. Brockleigh. Where were they now?

There was no more time to hide from it. Today Marina sat by the water's edge and observed the growing swell of her belly, and a soft, wavering smile touched her lips. Only for a moment. Then the tears came, and she could only weep for the children she'd lost.