Sasha cannot do this, she can't, it doesn't matter if Reshad will not control her hair or her hatchling, she's not going to break another cup. There's nowhere safe to look, so she closes her eyes and thinks about snow.
The girl looked north, and everything there was flat and white. She looked south, and everything there was flat and white. She looked east, and saw mist rising up, rising as high as she could see, opaque and white. She looked west, and saw the footprints of the person who was also a wolf.
The girl walked west. With her steps, snow fell; from her footprints, snow fell on the world below.
When everything feels still, Sasha opens her eyes and says, "Any human can shift the calendar, over a short distance. With all of us together, from different times and places, maybe the shift is greater. Is that the risk you mean? Or do you want to know more about why Ione wears gloves?"
trying not to break things
The girl looked north, and everything there was flat and white. She looked south, and everything there was flat and white. She looked east, and saw mist rising up, rising as high as she could see, opaque and white. She looked west, and saw the footprints of the person who was also a wolf.
The girl walked west. With her steps, snow fell; from her footprints, snow fell on the world below.
When everything feels still, Sasha opens her eyes and says, "Any human can shift the calendar, over a short distance. With all of us together, from different times and places, maybe the shift is greater. Is that the risk you mean? Or do you want to know more about why Ione wears gloves?"