DANTE

The sound Noa made arriving in the world was the most extraordinary thing I had ever heard.

Small and outraged and completely certain of itself.

Kira made a sound too, the specific sound of someone who has done something enormous and is on the other side of it and knows it.

Dara was efficient and certain and I stayed where I was told to stay and did what I was told to do and the room reorganized itself around the new person in it.

I looked at Kira.

She looked back at me.

Then she ...