Redsand Canyon dunefruit

towhee said so many things that she could not keep up.

first the older woman sought to give assurance and understanding.

next she was speaking of a daughter, and the feeling of being daughterly so affected tamar that her jaw tensed and she could not hear all of what towhee was saying. she was thinking of her own mother.

"ah — thank you, towhee," she managed. "i think that when the time comes, i will do well. i will have you and lady ruenna to teach me."

you like to take care of others. when had she not? was this what she wished to be all her days? towhee said she would be mother.

but dread coiled inside her gut. what if it truly did not come to pass? "do you have many children?" tamar asked next, wanting to push the focus from herself.