Ocean's Breath Plateau have some love

"she was. and maybe i did not." 
perhaps he should have.
ensconced once more in that cold sense of his own selfishness, his own want in the face of such grief, chakliux did not know how to move his eyes from her face.
she was not samani. she was not ariadne. she was not them and yet she was both and a mystery in the same.
the seal hunter did not know if he could bear it.