Hushed Willows country song

the man and his wife were kind. it almost made heda wonder why she had her heart so fixed on the bypass, and then she reminded herself it was far from the sea.
a place god could not go.
boone was speaking, offering them meat and herbs and blankets. heda, who had not looked into his eyes before this moment, offered a grateful curve of her lips that faded as soon as it had come.
"my husband is no longer with us," she finally said, as gently as she could suggest that the man she loved had died a horrible death and she was partially to blame; or totally. "we had eight children. i have two sons on the island. one will not leave." 
it was easier to speak than she had thought but now pain welled up through the silence. "thank you, for letting us stay as we wait for simeon."