" He threw his senses out around him, a swirling of a cloak that dropped down to touch his children, all of them close by. Daniel had come in late and sat for a long time with Luke, talking through the plans he could take no part in. He had gone to sleep on the cot in the room off the kitchen, and so for this night at least all three boys were under this one roof.

Hannah was just over the hill in her chamber at the doctor's place, Lily a little farther away through the woods, sleeping with her good husband beside her. Tomorrow they would be scattered again. Only Gabriel would be left to them, but for this moment, at least, he knew where they were and that they were safe, and he would hold on to that for as long as he could. "

― Sara Donati , Fire Along the Sky (Wilderness, #4)