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The walls of her shelter rattled. The yehakin was stable in fair weather, reasonable in poor, but this was something else entirely. This was a storm for the ages, one that pounded the land with more water than it had seen for the entire year prior. Funayurei could only distantly hear the sound of waves on most days. Now, she heard them as a muffled roar.

She wondered if she should evacuate. She wondered if she was too late already. She smiled wearily upwards at the jellyfish that sat atop her head. "Jetsam won't be happy about this," she whispered, words that were swept immediately away by the storm. She didn't mind so much if the water rose and drowned her, but her son would. And Treasure would. She truly thought that those were the only two in the world that would notice her passing. She didn't them to be pained by her loss, but she couldn't motivate herself to feel frightened on her own behalf. It really was too late now. She would survive this... or she would not.

Lightning flashed, illuminating a dark figure in the uncovered doorway of the yehakin. Terror blossomed in Funayurei's heart to see the phantasm. Her body wanted to flee but there was nowhere to run to, the figure blocking the only exit to the small dwelling.

Then the figure entered. She'd thought it was a terrifying beast when it stood outside, but once the creature entered, she realized it was just a child. A child grown, but she felt it was a child from the look on its face. With their fur and feathers all matted down from the rain, she couldn't even tell what gender the stranger was. Nevertheless, she didn't feel like they would harm her. They looked even more frightened than she was.