Dragoncrest Cliffs The Bends

val and chacal converged as suzu gave the story. 
she had been on a bit of an adventure with etienne, it seemed; his matant was pleased to hear he was well, and for a moment this showed upon her face.
she had tracked her brother and this friend to a place called rivenwood, where it sounded as if a son of the shores was being forcibly kept.
mireille did not move her intent gaze from her niece until suzu had finished speaking. and then she stared first to chacal, then to val.
etienne was not a boy, he was a man. how could he be trapped? but she believed that something forceful was afoot, and like the aventurine, felt it was time for him to come back to sapphique.
"i t'ink t'ree of us should go back an' see about t'ings." heda? why was she there? "suzu, you have only named one man, would a trio be enough to — mediate t'ings?" she asked pleasantly, though the emerald eyes had hardened to know that etienne was in any trouble at all. mireille herself could not go, much as she wished, but she knew whatever firm emissaries were chosen would be effective.