Ocean's Breath Plateau Out on the mira

Her senses betrayed her, surely.
Madness, it was- and yet, it couldn’t be. 
Her children knew the scent of their father, of their brother…It was not a dream that she had succumbed to, it was not the afterlife where she walked, as she crossed the borders back to the Plateau. Here it was, the scent of not only @Dutch, but Katmai as well. 

She feared what she might see- and what she might think, say, and feel. She feared what he might have to say, and what he might think when he saw her- wan and thin from grieving. 

Had she come to peace with his absence? Never. But at the same time, she had accepted the fact that she would never see him again. 

And now, she did. And when she did, she froze.