lost at sea

fading phas here!

The thing in the reeds moved -- quite visibly. Caiaphas turned her full attention to it, though she did not offer assistance. If the Mothers had ordained this one drowned at sea, it was not her place nor hand to defy them. She frowned as the splume hit them, briny and frigid in the icy air.

να αφήσει στις μητέρες να λάβουν . She instructed to her agouti comrade, her tone final. They did not have enough food for another mouth, and with war upon them, they could spare no resources to stragglers. With that the slender siren turned on her heels and back to the Sound's keep, where she would forget about the waterlogged wretch that had been spat upon her doorstep. Should the Mothers find the thing suitable and deserving of life, they would show her soon enough.