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the anger that came hurling towards her was shocking for one moment, and in the next it was not. in silence, dinah's eyes found the faded gold of her mother's own and she saw herself in them; saw herself, truly, in the rage, in the flick of her tongue and the heady grief that did not seem to ever leave them alone.
mama had no one else in the same way that dinah herself didn't. mama had lost them too.
she had to go.
through the blinding tears, dinah hunches over and curls at her mama's feet; she squeezes her eyes shut, for she feared that if she opened them and saw the clench of her mama's jaw again she may collapse in on herself. she tastes the bile in the back of her mouth still, and it almost hurt.
can you sing to me? a quiet request, only loud enough to be heard by a mother's ears. like you used to when we were little. it was the only thing she could think of that would make things feel normal again.