Ocean's Breath Plateau kavrak ∷

a long exhale threatened to remove her strength, but she looked steadily at the man with his scars.

ariadne would be found, and she did not need to speak another word of it or seek the foolish young woman herself.

but her heart sank at the man's next question; it was not so much a trade as it was a test of her power, her willingness to speak of two peoples.

kukutux stood, straight-backed; she gathered the carry-skin and looked toward the death ulaq.

for a moment the wind traced her spine; she appeared almost girlish as tresses of white held the breezes.

"seal stalker."

and then she was gone, stepping lightly past chakliux to seek rodyn and her grandsons, a choking, earthy heaviness in her mouth.