Ocean's Breath Plateau staring into the sun

zharille. long had it been since he heard this name, but he knew it, and assumed in a moment at all the ways their discourse had soured.

"zharille traded her claim to the lake for the capture of khaba and the rescue of her children," the prince said plainly. she may not have known it at the time, primal creature she was, but akashingo would only recognize their own claim now to greatwater.

a child left back in a gilded basket now had the education, the guardianship, the guidance of divine royalty. racharra had been so sure. how had the word of an absent woman stolen her determination?