Ravensblood Forest salt grounding

backdated to feb 21

as her body was put through its changes, chani found herself near despondent. she brightened for crowell, even allowed the others to see her response to him. and she did not explain herself to neither aunt nor mother, seeking to isolate herself from them more and more, an island of one woman.
but her mind could not accept the tree-filled horizon. she could not accept that it had been weeks since her feet had touched the soil of sapphique. chani was cast adrift, and in the tepid weaktea light of yet another morning, she felt tears begin to run down her face in unstaunchable rivulets.
she worked to pry clams up from the cold sand, refusing to sob.