Bearclaw Valley my sad soul forgot its pride

Their visit concluded after that question.
She was given a moment to drink and could barely look at herself reflected in the water as it lay flat, mirroring the open sky - the ink-dark man.
And then they turned with Merrick's prompting. Back down the ridgeline to where Indra was to be kept, where she could mull over her future - or sleep, and be lost for a while.