Heron Lake Plateau eye of wrath

@Arunik'ra was close at hand; they had crossed the great swathe of mountainous terrain and emerged into a land cracked with brown, though a smattering of viridian had come to rest upon the loam, the trees. "we must cleanse this land, sister. it is cursed," she had told the ruddy arunik'ra, traveling alongside her sister as they swept the landscape with their eyes.

almost immediately upon setting foot in this dusty place of strangeness, eshamun's body had changed; receptivity settled for the first time upon her and she woke irritable and shot through with a strange heat. their mother and grandmother had told them of this; their aunts and older sisters had illustrated what this would mean for her now.

"i go," she told her sister, her face contorted with a worry that soon smoothed into resolution. eshamun kissed arunik'ra's cheek -- she pulled away and headed into the tangle of half-barren trees for one purpose, and one purpose alone. 

the air was wreathed in her scent as the young woman traveled, wrought with a worry that she did not show upon her face. eshamun was quiet, stoic -- her search had begun and she would not be deterred. the woman paused along a thin stream to slake her thirst, lifting her head to peer about.