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With a long, deep stretch, that made her features even longer than they already seemed, the deer stepped out of her room. The sun was shining again. She'd wanted rain very badly lately. And sleeping in her room was starting to grow increasingly uncomfortable. She'd take the forest bed over that squishy mattress any day now. It was time for the habit of using furniture to die out completely.

Emerwyn had decided that today was a day to not think about anything that she had to be thinking about. The talk with Liamh had brought some refreshment to her. And if she could hold on to that, she'd be fine, at least for the day. This was provided she didn't happen to run in to anyone who reminded her of her recent plight. Or her old ones. Things that hadn't been mentioned out loud or silently to the deer in many weeks. It was not the time.
She was in emotional hibernation. Until she was ready to go and face her destiny.

She walked through the village with the thought in her head to go to the beach. She hadn't been there in a while. But a strange noise echoed through the village paths. An awkwardly piggish grunt. The noise came from her chosen direction as it was, so she followed it. And there she found - an awkward pig. It was..... Bobby. She had met Bobby once. Oh, what a wonderful meeting they had, too! Bobby had made her feel so good about - oh.
Well. There's no avoiding it now.
Emerwyn pressed forward.

"Oh, greetings, Bobby!" Emerwyn smiled brightly. Bobby really was a sweet woman, and should she bring up that certain someone, it wouldn't be her fault. Emerwyn would have to manage a way around it.
"I am rather content, actually. Far better than I have been." In fact, this was true. Emerwyn's drawn-in, shadowed face, and her soft, untracable voice made it difficult to know just what she was feeling. It often came across that the deer was brooding over something, which, more often than not, the melancholy woman was.

Emerwyn nodded. "As am I."

"I was planning on heading to the beach today. It has been a long time since I've seen the wide waters, and it has been just as long since I came to terms with the part it has playe in my life."

She knelt down to pick up one of the baskets of food. "And how has life been to you?"

Emerwyn moved to help Bobby when she fell, but she was quick to get up on her own. So the deer stood, upset that Bobby had to suffer such a difficult change.

She put a hoofed hand on her shoulder. "Do not worry. If you do not wish to go to the beach, we can simply walk about. Though, I find that returning can settle previous disputes with nature... Whatever you wish." She nodded, and started to walk. They may as well get going somewhere.

"I have learned through my many strange experiences to not doubt any possibility," she said cryptically.

So, instead of attempting to take on the mundane task of conquering the great salt-water demon, Emerwyn took a walk with a pig woman.
The autumn sun really was lovely. But Emerwyn wished, and she wished aloud, "that I could feel that wonderful chill passing through the trees, or watch the New England trees transform in a whirlwind of colors. Or the England trees." She sighed. "Now there is a sight I have not seen in years."

Emerwyn laughed. At least in this case her strange speech was appreciated. A joke was better than a cold shoulder.

"You... you lived in New York City?
As did I; for five years, after I left England... Jerrick and I would go up to New Hampshire to watch the leaves change in the fall. Central Park never quite had the same feel."

It was only because of Jerrick that she moved to the city. She had met Jerrick in England; he'd been staying with Ketta... They'd only known each other for two years before they decided to move to New York together...