Northstar Vale Picture a place where it all doesn’t hurt.

that same flicker was in tamar.

it guided her to the grief of towhee as if the older woman was a beacon. tamar knew death and knew sadness, but not this. 

new life, shared between them; when she found towhee it was only to offer a soft look and then the embrace of her arms.

she did not understand. she did not want to understand. but she could give a warm place for towhee to experience this horrendous loss, a pillowing of love for a stricken head, as much as she and arsenio had done for leona's long sleep.