Ankyra Sound eros, giver of pain

"because it feels odd to lead wit'out rosalyn."
when this began, erzulie told herself she would make no spaces with jorunn that omitted her wife. and though it still felt some way to utter her name in this bower, she said it all the same and with confidence.
and then all of a sudden, her face contorted. she looked skyward as the tears came. "i want to be t'ere to take care of her. to be wit her." the seawife's voice remained steady even as the silent weeping went on, realization, perhaps even panic.