Ocean's Breath Plateau ice plant

Just a cameo! Lmk if it's not okay and I'll delete <3

As Chakliux's strength failed, Marina began to grasp her own scant reserves more firmly, if only for her husband's sake. Her own sickness lingered stubbornly, faint but there in the way her skin was often warm to the touch and her coughs occasionally woke her family in the night. Chakliux was sicker, though. He needed her.

So she tended him as much as she could; hunted for him on occasion; lingered, worried, at his side. Marina was a mournful ghost at his sickbed, though for his sake she tried to be cheerful during his waking hours. She feared that she would lose him.

But today he called for Dutch, and it brightened her some. Marina would hover nearby like a fretting mother hen, but for now she made herself scarce to allow them privacy.