Noctisardor Bypass shadows settle in the place that you left

ava concurred wordlessly, and dinah took this moment to meet her eyes. she had grown into a strong young woman, bathed in the soot of a lineage they were perhaps both clueless about; but ava, she decided, was as much of a redhawk as she and her blood-brothers. daddy would want her to share the surname, she thought, and she hides the emotional glaze of her expression with a turn of her head.
when dinah turns back around, ava is already gone! she stumbles into laughter before shouting wait for me! and turning to lope after her, leaving a trail of wet grass behind her.
if only she had known this would be the last happy memory the sisters would share for a long while.