Sequoia Coast god loves you, but not enough to save you

it is midnight when she stirred, roused to miserable wakefulness by the soft approach of another. 

it hits her right away. daddy is dead and he is not coming back. she propped to elbows with a squint, dinah’s concerned face looming into view. 

so much like caracal’s own it stunned her; 

but the words! a soft gasp parted from ava, who had no ability to command her tongue to do the same. 

she turned to her sister — once spurned, now one of the only pieces still there in her heart — and pulled her close. I love you too. it will be okay.