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" I always thought your grandfather would come back here to die," he said. "To be buried next to her." He looked into the shadows for a moment, thinking of his mother, of the grandmother Hannah had loved so dearly and lost so young.
"But he never came. I expect he's gone now, but I don't know that for a fact. Sometimes I wake up at night wondering, and you know, daughter, I think maybe that's just what he wanted. He wanted me to think of him out there in the world someplace. It's a comfort to me, that much I got to admit. To think he might walk up the mountain some morning and be standing there when I wake up—if I live another fifty years, I'll still be wondering if maybe—" He paused. "If that's what he wanted, then it's a kind of a gift a father can give to a son. "
― Sara Donati , Fire Along the Sky (Wilderness, #4)
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" 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)
