Noctisardor Bypass greimada

for @John, other tags for ref but feel free to join :D <3

the girls were sullen. john remained a man of god. heda was choked by guilt. she had taken @Dinah and @Ava Amara to the rendezvous where she had been brought long ago, when she was skaigona and sequoia was her mother.
her sons! on the coast! sequoia and mahler would never have let her be separated from worripa, from witch, from druid; her eyes stung.
she thought they might be asleep, and crossed over to silencepine in search of the only other grown wolf now in noctisardor. "we won't have to leave for prey," heda said wearily. "we never did before."
there were packs in the valley and the taiga, certainly, but if their little group did not have to depart to hunt, they didn't have to leave at all. 
and as soon she could, heda would visit the coast again and beg her sons to come with her.
or beg her daughters to come home.
her eyes wept no more tears; grief was all she had become.