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yes, val encouraged with a gentle scruff of lafayette’s forehead. your sisters — and you — come from strong stock.

drawing his gaze across the lake, val did a brief headcount. all were in order, giving him a moment to consider lafayette’s words. the mother that birthed me. he expanded, trying his best to navigate this topic in a way that was neither traumatic nor worrisome to lafayette. my maman was adopted — in a sense — by your grandmothers erzulie and rosalyn. they raised her, and then they raised me.

and they would have raised the next generation too, val thought sadly, were it not for the bear.