Duskfire Glacier She hides like a child but she’s always a woman to me

Lilia needs a caretaker. If not, she gets three more threads and then she’ll die.

 

The water carried her away from the two dangerous wolves- and to a flat point in the terrain from which she could see the glacier of her home in the distance. She was exhausted and starving, but she fully expected her mother to dote on her as soon as she reached her home.

”MAMA!!!” She screeched loudly, as she dragged herself to a halt, sprawled across where the borders had been- now, devoid of markings. She was furious. Her eyes were glistening and red  around the edges. Her nose ran. ”MAMAAA!” She shrieked again. 

Only now did it begin to hit her, and fill with her spite, to know her entire family was gone