Dragoncrest Cliffs salt singing

too late she came back.
chani stared at the fresh grave which marked a dark lorekeeping among the sea-cliffs; she sank down and thought of the whalebone pelvis she had taken to eresta and errantly left there.
she would not have forgotten it if —
whatever traces had been left of sobeille were gone now, stunning chani in a second blow of loss. 
her mother had been before this grave; her returned girl wished to run to her now, but saw herself rooted and weaving there in the briny wind.