Stavanger Bay So we built a fortress of red bricks and ladders

Once she'd given it freedom, the fear consumed her. She shook with it as she rocked with sobs, not noticing her wife until she had circled her. Even then she was helpless to stop.

They're gone. She choked it out, but it wasn't much of an explanation.

Was it they who were lost? Or herself?

There was an emptiness in her that was beginning to yawn wider, blackening her edges. She barely registered Erzulie's presence in her panic beyond that response. She ached to call again but (thankfully) was too out of breath to manage it.