It was then that she saw something she’d never expected. She saw that her mother would do anything for her, that she would search the world over for her if Anne fell into the underworld; she would make the trees turn brown and shake them with all her might until they lost their leaves, she would scour the whole world until she found her daughter. They didn’t get along, but it wasn’t because they were opposites, rather because they were so alike. Anne wondered if her mother was giving her the necklace because there might not be time to do so if she waited until Anne was eighteen.
