Silverlight Terrace snow thunder

akmaaksi would never go to the forest.

she had lost her fear of the lake because she had lost her desire to see her mother's bones beneath the cold surface.

ariadne had died there; it was not ground which might be tread by her feet ever. in honor of sacred earth, akmaaksi forbade herself from touching a single grain.

she wondered why scheming grandmother had allowed aunt callyope or cousin panuk to be there at all.

firegirl walked beside @Tautukpik, traveling through uneven ground into a terracing of moonweave.

over them, the shadow of moonspear loomed.