Ravensblood Forest salt grounding

chani had been cut from the others by the selfsame pirate who claimed her now. the isolation was repeated, but mireille had witnessed all the fighting spirit drained from the younger woman. she saw the clinging despair and how her jaw tensed when she looked upon the sea.
but chani did not seek her aunt or her mother, and she stayed farther and farther from them. 
today their detail was foraging. mireille did not brave the water so often, but on pretense of joining in the work, she inched closer to chani.
theirs was an unsaid agreement to never speak to each other in common. "se pou nou pwoteje ou. li panse ou poukont ou, nyès." how could chani share their strength if she kept herself apart?