Sequoia Coast Mother Called Me Home

she smiled warily. it sounded familiar. she felt her heart drawn to it. any man not of sapphique was no good, not to her. not to the lives within sapphique.

but here was he and here was she.

i do not know your heart, she told him, a neutral look settled upon her features. she felt wise beyond her years, but she knew youth still tinged her brain.

look within. tell me, gunnar.

she urged him on, softly.