Alpine Lake soon she shall give them

"not a short ways, but not a long while. not as far as de mountains." somewhere in between, and erzulie was confident that she and rosencrantz would be able to find the pack niamh claimed. seeing no reason to remain as they were, she turned their trail toward the glade.
"dis place was all swallowed wid water not long ago," she breathed; the summer had seemed so long and thus existed in a smaller time than hot-months before. it was memorable for the swamping, the puddles, the flooding, the collapse of rock.
she pulled their strides together, becoming quiet as she set her gaze to searching again.