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16. Water
Water can be a truly fearsome element, calm and serene one moment and the next giving birth to storms, storms that drown the earth and choke the bays and break the ships and smash the shore.
But Water is a giver of Life.
A woman of the water tribe had lived a full life, if not long. She spent it giving life to two children, to her family, to her home which was more than skin walls and fire and the smell of cooking meat. It was the warmth of achievement against the frozen ice, it was a lullaby of waves and song. That was home. That was life.
And when it came time to give that last, rattling breath, she gave it for the sake of life.
But water flows, must always flow, and so she was not truly gone, only sleeping in a still pool while the world around her moved.
She was energy, and she would ensure the flow.