Ocean's Breath Plateau avappasugjuk ⏧

Aiolos knew something was wrong when his wife did not return. Not with new fire in her eyes from the new life of their blood which were born. Not with news of their new grandchildren's genders and names and a reluctance to leave them behind. As she has with Sialuk. As she with Vaire. Instead, she had rushed from the outskirts of Moonspear and did not return. 

Time passed. 

And then a call, carried by the salty breeze and bouncing off the encircled mountains of Moonglow. 

A twin of their first litter together, their daughter and a granddaughter unseen, both gone. The sons being sent to Moonpear for milk, so that they might still survive. Moontide's Queen was dead. The leadering pairs children swept away. Moontide left broken.

Samani; girl who looks out to the sea always.

His son's were made to go. Others followed. Aiolos held back and he was silent as was Moonglow, as it's residents left for a funeral after a birth. And here with certainty that he was alone, the father wept. 

After a time, distant eyes swept across the open lands of Ocean's Breath Plateau. The people of Moon gathered. They encircled the body (and child) of what he knew to be his little girl. He wouldn't try to look, happy for the cover of those gathered round. He didn't come near yet only stood to watch and to listen from afar.