Ocean's Breath Plateau Safe and sound…finally

tuft returned with what had been requested. chewing the fish quickly, kukutux soaked it in the water, leaving the mixture for now while the meat softened.

beneath the cliffs. they smelled of earth and salt. "i do not think we will be thought to have taken them, no," she assured reina and tuft. "they must rest. they do not belong to the moon villages, and so we must send word to other places, that two young have been found."

she guessed they each had twelve moons, though their hunger and hard journey had ground them into smallness, almost nothing. 

"the boy will live. i am not sure her spirit will stay," kukutux said of the girl, voice hushed with painful knowing.