A curt exhalation, not loud or joyous enough to be a laugh. "Lucky you," she mutters, rough and wry. It's a terrible thing to say, knowing as little as she does; it turns on Mama being dead and Anya feels a twinge of guilt, then starts, eyes wide. "Is he dead too?" It isn't hope in her voice, not exactly, but it might be hope's colder cousin.
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