Ocean's Breath Plateau komatiq ∇

I'm cool keeping it to this thread and writing with Huojin! Less mess in my threadlog, but it shouldn't slow down the thread too much. ;)

With the small look from her mother, Sialuk turned her attention to Huojin, who wished to show her the water. Giving the adults space to talk was something she was used to and did not resent.

I do, Sialuk said, when he asked about the water. She thought of the endless rainstorm which had once covered the sky. Sialuk hadn't really embraced it so much as endured, but there was plenty of other water to like. The streams came to mind, which wound their way down the mountain, starting as snow until the sun turned them away and they couldn't be cold any longer.

My name has the meaning 'raindrop' in my mother's language, she added, glancing sideways to see what his reaction to this would be. Did he like water, too?