Totoka River have faith in yourself.

the wind lashed between them and for a moment that was all there was.

but then the girl known as ava was running -- the ground streaking beneath her feet as she rushed for her mother in the way a wave rushes for shore.

she knew her mother was sick by the scent that clung to her, but in that moment she did not care. all she wanted - after all of these thousand hard miles - was to hug her mother again.