Wheeling Gull Isle sparrows

her tongue, it robbed nakano of a moment shared between them, and for a moment her eyes threatened the hot brimstone of tears as she traced his striking face. the sorrows did not come in this moment; they came in the next, with judah denying his place at her side to remain with his father.
"no," heda managed, but it was weak with shock; her golden eyes searched his face. she could order him; she could insist, at the cost of another scene and more strain upon her affected children.
and still caracal did not come.
rivulets of bitter salt ran down her face.
"i'm coming back for you, judah."
she couldn't stay here another moment; she followed simeon and dinah weakly, pausing beside malakai, for whom she had no answer for once.
neither ana nor ava had yet showed their faces. "go with your brother and sister," she told the twin to judah; and for the first time they would be parted.
a tilted call for @Everett, to come with her, to stay; he would seek god's answer in this even if he did not know what had happened.
a shuddering breath raked upon her heart; she would pause to search until the tremble in her limbs too sent her down to the landbridge and into the world beyond.
already regret spiked within her; for her anger; for her reaction; for her assumptions; for her inability to simply let things be as they were.