Redhawk Caldera Feel familiar, I'm never alone

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beside the lake would the cardinal find teya when she did not answer, staring into the icy breadth of the water with something like want.
the raven's pelt stood ungroomed, sodden with dirt in some places. she had refused the help of her pack and now paid for it, but teya did not want them to see the twitching below her eye, the whisper of niamh's shriek that remained with her; not the rapid weight loss.
she wanted to die. but if she died, her children would never recover. each breath drawn on that bank was for them. each morsel of food she forced herself to eat was for them.
teya had no strength to answer bridget, instead starting to cry at the prospect of being witnessed in her current state by someone she loved very much.
bronco, why did you not take me with you?