Not a great word count.  Not even a NaNo minimum.  But it is one thousand words I didn’t have earlier.  Here’s a little excerpt from today’s effort.

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Livvy and Sakura told her the hiker they’d been looking for in Maryland had been found, but he hadn’t been alive. 

“Oh?  What about his little girl?”

Livvy and Sakura looked at each other, and Sakura said, “She’s fine.”

Livvy took Cheryl‘s hands and looked her square in the eyes, “Cheryl, the hiker was your dad.”

Silence.  “But.  If he had a little girl with him, who was that?”  Her eyes said she knew, but her conscious mind hadn’t grasped it yet.

Livvy drew her into a close hug, “Honey, they didn’t know you were up here.  They thought you might have been with him.”

“Oh.”  She allowed Livvy to hold her.  She didn’t know how to react.  Finally, she took a deep breath and pushed away.  “Well.  What now?”