(16) As the frosty bits dwindled the wind slowed and big snowflakes began falling as serenely as
anything could fall the distance from the sky. (17) Ree listened to lapping waves of far shores while
snowflakes gathered on her. (18) She sat unmoving and let snow etch her outline in deepening clean
whiteness.
The mood to the final paragraph ( sentences 16-18) is best described as