Sequoia Coast Ocean of Stars

"They died in a forest fire last year," Wraen replied in level voice. Her rational mind had accepted the sad fact with less emotion than either Maia or from what she had heard Sarah had. Perhaps, it was the distance thing - she had not been there to witness their demise - or maybe she had always known that such day would come. If fire had not reaped them, something else would have. 

"My sister Sarah survived to tell the story," she added, thinking briefly of her queenly sibling and wondering, how was she doing now, a year later. But that thought did not stay for long. Sarah was a survivor and certainly not someone, who would dwell in past too much.