Noctisardor Bypass talking to the moon

etienne spoke, and heda nodded, but there was no heart in it. druid had already made her choice; heda had already accepted.
she watched her sister leave with a fatalistic sickness in her gut, spreading like poisoning, wakening the never-slumbering serpent of an abandonment wound lurking like unmade quarry inside her aching heart.
for a long while, unspeaking and unblinking, heda stared at the place where druid had gone, perhaps for the last time.
with great effort she turned toward etienne, anguish in her eyes; "i'll tell the kids, when it — when it's time. then we'll gather and decide what to do. and i'll search for her," heda said quietly, not wanting to argue. she could bring her sister's remains back here and bury them with the last parts of herself, yes.