Ravenshook Cliffs [m] seal paw

>:D

she had been searching for days.
almost mindlessly, red leaf paced the cliffs just beyond moontide as if cen would be swept in by the ocean. she had gone briefly to the sentinels, and then over to the plains just to the west; still, she drew back to the cliffs and found nothing.
she had not eaten. she had not slept.
why had she told ghelan those things about him? she had poisoned her son against his own father, and now she was driven by an animalistic desire to — fix it. make it right. give her boy his family back.
get her husband back.
and yet there was this ever growing voice in the back of her mind that told her to let him go; rational mind fighting with the shackles which still wound themselves around her ankles. she had ignored this voice for days, bit it back as she let her throat go hoarse with endless crooned notes that she hoped and prayed would be recognized, and yet it would not cease. she began to listen to it, to allow it to take residence in her fragile mind.
perhaps coincidentally, it was around this time that chakliux had come to search for her.
she had sheltered herself beneath the coverage of large stonefaces, feet muddied with wet sand and loam. his was the first voice she had heard in what felt like an eternity. thunder roils behind her, nearly drowning the seal hunter out, but beneath it she heard the rumbling baritone and the coastal accent.
bitterly, she chooses not to answer.