Dragoncrest Cliffs sweetheart, i don't do shorts

rain swelled the sea, and so did sapphique burgeon.
many of them, so young to be injured in the way that they were.
erzulie came to see him with a croon, tucking her brood under the capable care of their elder sisters. they were growing all which-way as of late, and while they were still small, they would not remain so forever.
"did you find what you sought?" she asked of the boy who had grown up while he was away. he was what she knew of kaertok, in bearing if not in pelt. 
the woman searched him quietly.