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

that was the thing about home and god. it was there, until it wasn’t. 

dinah’s face buried into her shoulders. ava was grateful then, for it hurt to see the face of her father, just in different form. 

someday maybe the pain would go away. someday, this might be as distant from her heart as the dark shores of blackwater. 

ava stilled while her sister sobbed; tears that might water the garden of her corrupted eden —

tears that might nourish and direct the curse ava felt burgeoning in her heart.