Stavanger Bay So we built a fortress of red bricks and ladders

finally; finally
she let out her breath and held her wife for a long, haunted moment.
the fear was still tangible in every line of rosalyn's body, and erzulie did not understand. her eyes said as much, expression half-determined, half-pleading. "all right. we be goin' now," she said, opting not to question to ask; she only wanted to pull rosalyn to her feet and bring them both home, to the safety of sapphique and their family where she could at last truly look at her wife and search for the truths she did not want to know.