Ocean's Breath Plateau ataani ⩸

she did not go at once to home.

many things drew kukutux to moontide, the least of which was not nantahala. so short a time she had been away, and yet it felt as though a moon had passed.

comforted by the presence of arrluk and ajei, the promise of new life for moonglow, the duck traveled along the sands to the windswept place where she had first come to feel warmth for aiolos.

her paw touched the weathered bark of the death ulaq where the bones of samani rested in peace.

it was here kukutux would rest for a long while, golden sequoias overhead and the great sea before her, peaceful in its unwavering rush.