A third of the world is covered by the howling maelstrom that was born a century ago. It is not ordinarily a place you'd find people surviving, but sometimes things appear in it. Strange things - otherworldly things - brought into the mist of a howling storm of cloudy dust and wind that blows in whichever direction it wants.
Pelape finds Eefa and superpowers
thesignalandthenoise
"Your buyer want live merchandise?" she asks the child traffickers when they don't seem about to feed Eefa.
thesignalandthenoise
"They may've assumed food was implied as a necessary travel expense in the wanting live merchandise."
thesignalandthenoise
"It doesn't look to be in amazing shape." That doesn't feel like a personal pronoun in this language - nice of the dream to give her the language - but she can't tell what sex the kid is, which appears to be information she'd need to be more polite. "Hunger makes one less resilient against everything else."
thesignalandthenoise
"Sure, what's your name? Why's the weather like that," she points in the general direction of the maelstrom. "Do you have any idea why I've got a superpower now, it's new."