Blacktail Deer Plateau all the things yet to come are the things that have passed

aningan had always accepted her wayward children, and erzulie was beginning to grow a finally grateful bone in her spine about it. thus, as she brushed clementine's cheeks, forehead, with reassuring kisses, her two-toned gaze was affectionate when it alighted upon their young leader.
"rusalka will always be your home," the harlot declared, glancing into clementine's face with a pang to see how the months were beginning to shape the girl toward womanhood. "we should tell aningan dat you are heah to stay."