Wanderlust (Olkhon Island | Baikal Lake, Siberia)

[Thalia]

Her body stirred from the touch, but did not wake. Brief murmurings drifted from her lips -- maybe too mumbled to hear, maybe not -- and her sleeping expression flickered into a press of concern or pain before her body curled tighter into itself, like consciousness swelled to the surface only to sink like a belligerent stone.