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just a kid. just a child. just a baby. just a boy.
like judah had been.
her sobbing was muted and broken, but their mother did not collapse, as she only wished to do. dinah would not go. simeon might not return.
just a kid!
and she, their mother! could they have been cursed with a weaker parent?
in breath she steadied herself, then crouched before dinah.
i need you to stay here, with john, a glance to gather the sweetharbor man, and ava.
i need you to be here when i get back.
heda too, could not leave without this closing, and this chapter could not end if she abandoned malakai as god had abandoned them.
but she would not go unless her daughter assured her, promised, that heda would come back to two daughters.