Dragoncrest Cliffs We are painted with the fear that if the sea recedes, it never comes back...

erzulie grinned. "lucky dem!"
she did not think that sapphique and its legacy would have crept into her bones the way that it did. and yet it had — and now that it had, she was consumed by thoughts of the future.
she would leave it to fate. to njord's choice. to her own body. the prospect of carrying another pregnancy was daunting.
and yet she felt the old compelling again.
she leaned against rosalyn.
"we have built such a safe place for our family," she commented softly.