Sequoia Coast tripeka

i love you, the silent arms said with a tight squeeze and a kiss to the top of dinah's head.
she was only a girl. only a child. but heda had burrowed so far inside her own mind that even this fact did not touch her: that the suffering of her children now would be her own direct fault, every step they spent away from their home and the aspect of their father.
they had nothing more to lose. they had everything more to lose. heda pushed the stranger's prey toward dinah now.
i love you. i love you.