Ocean's Breath Plateau [m] wind runner

she gasps, she coughs, she sobs. she lays still, avoiding the eyes of her husband and clenching her teeth, allowing his booming voice to ring loud in her ears and bury itself in her skull.
she had failed.
as a wife,
as a mother,
as a lanzadoii woman,
as a daughter.
she almost wanted it, wanted to let him kill her. it would have been more merciful a fate than having to live with the putrid, sickening knowledge that he did not love his son, their son, as he loved ghaden. he did not love him at all.
she had failed.
her lungs burn as she is forced to her feet, stumbling wildly like a helpless fawn in the sand before she pathetically collapses to her knees. she wonders what her parents would think of her now. she wonders if they, too, would have thought cen to be cruel if they saw this — she thinks of chakliux.
chakliux, chakliux, chakliux;
why couldn't she fight back?
why couldn't she fight back?
why couldn't she fight back?