Tide 'twixt your ribs


 * "There is a future, and I think I see something bright in the distance, too far to see. I want to reach for it, I want to know there is a future for me and for my family." 

"Tide twixt your ribs" is an account of the Wilting of the Lotus chronicle, from the perspective of Rai Kana. The story can be found here.

Plot summary (spoilers!)
"Tide twixt your ribs" takes the form of a series of short streams-of-consciousness seemingly addressed to Mayna, Rai Kana's mother, starting at the outset of the chronicle and dealing with her feelings about various situations she finds herself in over the course of the chronicle, including the occasion upon which she first kills somebody, the death of Teechi, the arrival of Kallai, the invasion of the Southern Water Tribe, the events of The Poisoned Healer, and finally the events surrounding the end of the chronicle.

At the start of the story, Raikana's thoughts are entirely in lower case, and shift to sentence case after the death of Teechi, and the final stream-of-consciousness is addressed not to Mayna but to Kallai.