Sequoia Coast The summers die, One by one.

john the baptist. john the acolyte. john descended the greenhills and stepped around the graves, surely, as she had, and had come down the landbridge and to the main shores. and now he had found heda and her girls. now he stooped before her eyes that hardly saw him.
and yet she was gladdened all the same to see john, and though her mouth said no words, her eyes suggested this truth.
and then she set them back upon the sea.
she would make no choice; she would go where her children led.