Noctisardor Bypass fossopa

all was shifting sideways again, and heda felt the grounding weight of the babes in her belly as it was — something to tie her to the earth so she did not float away. there was — there was no way to explain this to dinah, that choosing —
no!
no no no no no no —
the exhale wavered in her throat, on her lips; the tears soon slowed to a trickle and then dried; she wiped her face, feeling their stains upon her wrists, the warmth a sickening ooze which turned her stomach into flopping weakness.
"i need you, dinah, as a sister. not as a — not what i made you be to us before. but i do need you," heda managed, meeting the angered eyes of her daughter.
i don't love them the way i love you. i never will.
heda wondered where upon the flight from the island her heart had turned to so much shadow.