Blacktail Deer Plateau Climbed the trees of Carolina

reyes was returned, and erzulie was settling into the more comfortable pattern of accepting that her too-early dispersed brood would perhaps be forever cursed to return to the shoreline, the plateau, and their mothers. only marisol had made no reappearance, though she did not like to think of that. 
she found her wife stargazing, and sidled alongside rosalyn, her own eyes lifted to the heavens.