Sequoia Coast first;

go on they would; but at what cost?

as tiredness sunk into her veins, ava turned to her mother’s embrace. her mother, now a husk —

what the girl would not do to see life breathed anew in those eyes; what she would not do to see Caracal walk this earth again —

she was rocked in the rhythm of the sea. 

ava slept. 

while heda could not summon a song, a song was there nonetheless — the hymn of love. 

for love always remained.