Wheeling Gull Isle When sea foam green is in fashion.

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dinah wanted to tell her everything.
about rivenwood. about mama and her tryst. about how she'd worked to keep what remained of her family alive, only to be cast aside by the newer, prettier children who did not have daddy's face, nor his name. about the rise, and mulherin, and how long it had been now since she last saw him; how badly she wanted to go to him again. about how she could not, because — of judah.
thoughts raced about the girl's mind in a constant whirlwind. she was quieter than normal, tending still to her brothers and waiting for the right time to sweep them to the mainland. to escape from the ghosts which haunted them here. 
she approaches her grandmother in silence, beachswept and billowing in the way her mama once was. she smiles, but it does not reach her eyes.