Ocean's Breath Plateau thorn boy

looking for pups!

there was much happening, and marina's health had not improved.
he went then to gather the opposite of those things her brother had said would help, counting those plants which sickened his wife.
so many.
disheartened, he left off his search and wandered to do something at which he was skilled: hunting cormorant in the piled rocks at the edge of the water. the tall birds gleamed a glossy blue-black. their skins would make a fine curtain.