Seaside Moors there, silhouetted under an eastern star

raleska had returned, and erzulie did not feel settled, nor at peace. why had she disappeared? and why had rosalyn taken it to heart, and to childbed?
there was an air about her as she returned to the densite, restless and dispelled only by her frenzied hunt of a fieldmouse.
she brought it back with her, half-dead and wetted to the tiny bones; she laid it before solaire and glanced to the horizon as if she might see another of them returning, her wayward, haunted children.