Ocean's Breath Plateau taimma ➻

the last notes of her chant ended, kukutux stood for a long moment, buffeted by the lash of the unforgiving sea wind. she blinked back tears, telling herself they were only due to the playfulness of the air spirits. but her heart knew, the little whisper between exhale and inhale.

she would go back now, to moonspear, and there she would stay until the children arrived. and then kukutux would devote herself to being aaka and wife. perhaps then she would let go of these terrible thoughts that she could ever be a hunter, ever be stronger than what she had believed.

the girl turned, and on an intake her pale ears swept forward, and a breath from the mouth of the sea washed over her, pulling pale fur tightly against her body and clawing at the edges of her shoulder-wrap. and still she remained, silent, shoulder wearing the new scar of a hunter and springjade eyes gone haunted and flush with pain.

the trader, revui.