Ravensblood Forest and out in the woods lighting struck

It was —

No.

It could not. She had left behind the woods, filled with strangers who ruined her home. No one she knew had been there.

Why here? Why in these strange, awful woods did she find someone so close to her heart?

Why, now, had the world sought to slowly return all the pieces she had lost?

Yet she was not aware that she was not seen for who she was. Maybe it was befitting. The two of them both in the haze of feeling like they were staring at ghosts.

Her lips twisted and contorted as she considered what even to say. Perhaps it was not real. Perhaps in her feverish worries she had imagined up more lost things. She could not waste the opportunity to speak, though.

Ma?

It was not elaborate, it was not much more than a girl-not-quite-woman's soft voice vying for her mother's attention.

She felt like a pup all over again.

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