Sable flopped over the two boys, lying across their bellies with a bottle of heavily watered-down brandy (which she takes perhaps a sip of for the taste, but doesn't drink), looking for once her age instead of a young ADULT.
"Stuff here happens so sudden. People come and go. That's how it was for me growing up, too. It's nice to know I've got a home and family that's mine in blood as well as oaths and shared lives and won't change every day or five or ten or whenever we decide to move on."