Leeder's Grain Snippet

Here's a little gift for all of my readers, few as you may be: 

She smelled of the sea, the sweet salty brine of the ocean and the foam of a white-capped wave as it roiled toward the shore. Her hair seemed to have a life of its own, the thin filaments moving with the slightest motion within the room as they reacted to small sounds, flickering about like grass in the wind at the quiet pad of Molly's footsteps as she hesitantly made her way across the room to stand before her.

The woman extended a thin-boned hand as she turned, fingers curling outward and gently sliding beneath the young girl's chin, tilting her head upward and to the side. “Remarkable,” she said, and her voice had a music in it of a kind Molly had never heard before, the low moan of deep waters beneath its softness.

 “What's remarkable?” Molly asked, returning the pooling gaze of her brown eyes.

 “Why you are, young lady,” the woman laughed, and Molly smiled.

A snippet from page 16 of my novel. Currently on day 9 of NaNo, and catching up to the quota!