Totoka River have faith in yourself.

what was there to be discovered on her island?
she had not seen simeon; she had not seen malakai. but they were alive; they were wholly and vitally alive, and she could not waste the chance to see them.
amadeo had cautioned her not to seek them out, and she regretted ever listening.
skaigona had never expected to see her daughters again. it was ava and dinah who had been crushed against the wheel of turning time; she had never faulted them for leaving her.
but her child's thin whine turned skaigona's head at once, a mother answering the sob of a baby.
and there upon the sandbar she stood frozen and wind-lashed, trembling as tears came and she called noiselessly into the wind for ava, for her to be flesh and not illusion.