Lost Creek Hollow I can see the sun through the open window.

No, ilu, shush!

What he said made some sense. She thought of how big and strong her daddy was, and how refined and beautiful her mama was, and applied the logic to herself and Okeanos — although it gave her a moment of pause because Ibis realized she'd stopped thinking about, and pining for, her beloved brother. Guilt aside, the logic held up pretty well. Ibis was smaller than her whole family but took after Seabreeze the most; Okeanos was different, he'd been born big and would probably be a giant like their daddy.

She nods, almost solemn, finding these facts to be curious things. So your daddy was probably big, and -- oop, she meant to reference Liffey but had forgotten her name, what a terrible child! And so they might grow up big too. Or take after their mama, like I did. A small smile parsed her lips; she looked at the kids in a new light, and wondered for the first time what her kids might look like one day. Tiny and delicate things, probably. Beautiful little bundles.