For all that she knows, sometimes she is blind. Vision is honest and unfailing, but it is not the same as memory. What one sees is not always what one remembers. And perhaps it would have changed things, if she could see memory in the same way she did vision.
But she cannot. Instead Heartfire now stands before a woman she had tried to protect and instead betrayed in the most visceral of ways. And she doesn’t even know it yet. Luster would hate her once she did.
And she would be right to.
Would it be better or worse, that she learned from Heartfire rather than another? Regrettably, precognition is not one of her abilities, else she might have come with more ease.
She closes her eyes briefly as Luster greets her affectionately. She has never been a woman given to affection, but she gives it now. Perhaps the last time she would ever receive such a thing from her sister. Perhaps it is the last time she would be allowed to show her that she does care.
She is too flawed perhaps. She could not expect Luster to overlook those flaws, not after she knows the truth.
Her blue gaze settles upon that familiar face, expression stilling into a serene mask. “Mom and dad are well.” She pauses then, unsure how to continue. She frowns faintly, briefly, before her features smooth once more. “Luster,” she hesitates, at a loss for words for perhaps the first time in her life. She hadn’t expected it to hurt, and it is not something she could even think about. Not now. Perhaps not ever. “Did you know you’re pregnant?”
i see your sins
and i want to set them free
