“Missing someone is when you get sad that somebody isn’t there any more. Do you think you’ll get sad now that Starlight isn’t alive and you can’t pet him and cuddle him?”
The tip of Alice’s tongue came out and took up temporary residence at the corner of her lips. “Um … maybe.”
Valkyrie switched on her aura-vision, reducing her sister to a dark outline, throbbing weakly with a dim, almost imperceptible orange. It was so spread out, so diffused, that it was barely there at all.
She switched off the aura-vision before it made her sick with guilt, pulled Alice in and wrapped her up in a hug.