Lion Head Mesa I'm coming home again, all alone

"die?" it was belen's turn to be shocked, to flush with tears. "but there is so much you have not seen. there is so much i have not shown you, crowfeather," she said, near-pleading. her throat bobbed with a pained swallow, but she tried to smile through the cascade of salt upon her face. "i can comfort you. let me do that." her glassblue eyes searched his face, desperate, demanding.