The Sentinels [m]y love is a lifetaker

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Like clockwork each year, her season took hold just before the cusp of spring. When the heavens opened up to weep their icy tears for days unending, Marina knew it was almost time. She knew, and she feared it more than anything. Irrationally she grew terrified that the yellow-eyed man would find her again, that he would force himself on her and leave as he had the year before.

She hid herself away in her den as the fire descended upon her. It didn't occur to her to call out for @Dutch, not yet; their reunion was too new, her sense of safety too fragile to do anything but shatter in the face of this new development. So she hid. She listened to the rain coming down.