Ocean's Breath Plateau sistersun [m]

His confidence was soothing to her; his offer of help unexpected, though perhaps it shouldn't have been. Chakliux was not her husband nor their father, but he was here. He cared. And more than anything Marina desperately needed some semblance of stability, something to hold to while her world felt flipped on its head.

Thank you, Marina managed, her words simple but full of emotion. She hesitated over the clams, and after a moment of indecision, reached to touch her nose to Chakliux's shoulder first. Then she picked one and started to eat slowly.

After a brief silence she began again. I'm afraid they've been taken, She admitted. Before I came to Moontide - before I got pregnant, I was running from someone. A group of wolves my mother crossed. She was a thief. She's dead now. But they still remember me. Enough to have followed her nearly all the way here. Marina had decided months ago that they must have given up, or perhaps lost her trail. Now she was not so sure.