Arrow Lake the truth is i never shook my shadow

a silhouette burned in the corner of her eyes.

ava dragged her streaking gaze towards it, immobilized by disbelief.

ana?

her mouth parted in a tiny gasp of surprise. when she rose she felt as if something was pinning her skull to a tree trunk. pushing back the gasp of pain, ava stumbled and then ran towards the face of her tear-stained sister,  ignoring the way the edges of her outline seemed to blur together with the earth, and the sharp stab of pain in her temple.

it had to be real.