Bearclaw Valley [m] go back to sleep

OMG

when one leaves, another arrives.
flesh is stuck between athalia's teeth, the broad, feverish features painted in a rainbow of visceral reds and blacks. she does not look up, not at first. yes.
she has never seen this girl before. when she finally meets the dandelion eyes, she thinks she sees the dark apparition of her mother — but it is not her, not her at all. the voice, the body, even the face is different.
this was certainly new.
she sits silently, corpse drawn up between her willowy forelimbs, awaiting guidance that will not come from an apparition that is not an apparition at all, but a girl intruding upon her territory.