Greatwater Lake all swallowed in their coats

@Maegi

she regarded the span of water before her with suspicion, pacing at its shallows like a caged lion.

it was vast, to be sure, but she could smell no salt. emaleth was used to rivers, ponds, even small lakes — she had never stood at the shore of freshwater where she could not see the other side. it was unnerving, an ocean that was all wrong, right down to the ice that had begun to form at the edges.

was it a death trap in this early winter? when the ice was thick enough to bear the weight of a snowfall, but not so thick that a body would not fall through in its attempt to cross what would appear to be just another stretch of plain-lands covered in snow... she shuddered at the thought. born upon the sea, to drown would be the worst betrayal of the element she felt closest to.