Dragoncrest Cliffs Continuity

sobeille followed her siblings and cousins, keeping silent when they asked her questions about what her pearl ceremony had been like. it was a source of conflict for sobeille: she liked that she and her maman had drawn the same pearl — was possessive over this, even — but as she looked at the pearls her siblings and cousins extracted from their glittering shells, she’d seen just how small and ugly her pearl had been by comparison.

she knew this as a reflection of her own mind and heart.

wordless, sobeille sat just adjacent her tante, studying her maman and wondering why this year mireille lead the ceremony.