Ocean's Breath Plateau star shell

I cannot keep doing it.

Her voice rose in a croak, after a time. It trembled, as if Tullik was attempting to wrangle the hurt in her chest and shove it back down.

I cannot keep this watch, husband. She withers before our eyes, you were ill, the vile man who struck his wife-! All of it! She fell into a renewed wave of emotion, spilling from her eyes as she quieted her words.