Heron Lake Plateau i can see a shitfaced brother that i covered for what must've been the last ten years

She came in on the tail end of Caiaphas' speech.  Two babies, one pitifully small; somewhere, her heart should have wrenched for them (and somewhere deep it did), but her sole concern was for Raven's children — all born too soon with two in the ground already.

She leaned in close to Colt and offered only a whispered, I don't like this, the inked line of her lip tight as her mind worked over every terrible ending that could fall them.  That's a lofty assertation, was all she offered to the stranger before she remembered her rank and kept quiet.