'Keep watching…'
The men rode the beasts west across the grasslands to a desert where the grass became withered and dry. The goddess coaxed her to leave the men behind. She understood this was as far as they had journeyed thus far. The warm air carried her as though she possessed her husband's wings. She left the desert behind journeyed west to an enormous body of water.
'That is the Hyrcanian Ocean…'
Oh! She had heard of this fresh-water ocean, though never had she traveled to it! It was one of the places Jamin had promised to take her before he had broken his promise and told her a woman's place was in the village, the reason she had balked at marrying him. Now, she could see it for herself.
"Thank you, Mother!"
Laughter welled in the physical body which still sat in Papa's kitchen
