Sleepy Fox Hollow Away, tryna be somebody else

the moment passed.
heda glanced back into ava's face, all of her seized by a raging grief that settled into her bones.
and then her arms gently loosened though the reluctance was in all of her, visible. angry. she laid ava back upon the comfort of the den and then stood with a bone-wearied sigh.
the glance he had given etienne would feed her on the way home. "i'm going to leave now and get them. please watch her; please — call to me if anything —"
not again, not again; she looked between the two to see if there was any resistance to her statement and if there was none, heda meant to leave now, and quickly.