Broken Antler Fen There goes the loudest woman this town has ever seen.

A few people arrived. Wraen caught her eye, and then Teya — the man from earlier, Khali. An obliviousness seeped from some of them; Ibis did not have time to explain things and looked to Wraen, knowing they were pressed for time.

Just as her daughter tried to introduce herself to the man that arrived, Ibis gathered her herbs up and finally began to move; but she paused to look to her daughter, waiting for her to take note of the urgency bristling through the young mother. She would have called to Lilitu had she not been preoccupied with the herbs, and tapped a foot impatiently.