She crawls through the night with others who are shocked and injured, the doll tucked into her belt. Later, she adopts Winona and feeds her spirit, offers her the compassion she can’t give herself for outliving an entire branch of loved ones. Winona is too much for any child—her indigo eyes have witnessed the end of one world, how it burned for days, how mourners had to change direction and walk a broken path filled with dead earth and stones.
