Dragoncrest Cliffs avec amour

to share this with another sister opened the deluges locked behind sea-salt walls; they broke and she sank her voice into the baseline of coraline's own, winding their wail up and up and up until, until for a thousand miles, she hoped the story of their mothers and brother would be known.
coraline had not been here for it, but the grief that poured out upon the shoreline was mireille's, was chacal's, was that of their daughters and nieces and the quiet older sisters who had remained forever in sapphique.
not until her voice gave, she would remain beside coraline, and even then, mireille did not think she could lift herself from this earth.