Ocean's Breath Plateau staring into the sun

nebet. racharra slumps with a defeated frown, a sigh escaping as her body crumples from the weight of the priest's words — a title that she never asked for, and she realizes perhaps was never hers to begin with.

..i will not be able to claim the lake. she starts, firm yet unbalanced, ungraceful.she continues with a huff, and her brow furrows. zharille has come back. i met with her, just beyond the woods. the girl turns behind her to the dark spruce that looms over the gentle coastal side of moontide.
...it didn't go well. racharra's gaze is fixated to the trees — no, really, her gaze is beyond even that. its on the fields, the one she still sees so vividly the way the stalks of grass swallowed her mother whole.