“Baru,” Pinion said. “I don’t understand what you’re up to, and I don’t want to.” She took her daughter by the arm, not gently, but with care for how it felt. “But I want you to know, whatever happens, that you’ve been true to yourself. You’ve followed your curiosity to places I can’t go. Become someone I could never be. That makes me so proud. A daughter who’s more than her mother … that’s what I always wanted.”
