Rising Sun Valley salt gazing

for @Sven but aw! <3

something happened to chani as she journeyed.
it had not been long since she left eresta for home, and now home only just visited before she was off again, searching for her wayward cousin.
something happened as she crossed from nova peak to the taiga, when she weathered the bitter storms there in the lee of ancient ridges.
alight; slowly the sea-farer caught slow and muted fire. not quite the flame she would carry in the weeks to come, but a new sharpening to her edges, to her step.
the valley. the stones. she looked for them. and finally she called out for the brothers kvarsheim, addled by this burgeoning new sensation and her need to be gone, to continue her search.