Wherever you go, there you are.
(Written for cygnes and the prompt: "driving for many hours through mountains.")
The cause is long since lost. Richard Stoker's life as measured out in documents.
Violet starts to see India the way India sees, and everything else falls out of focus.
This is how it happens. There's always a mother, a daughter, and a man.
India takes the cup. (Or: people disappear all the time, but seldom to such scenic locales.)
There's a first time for everything. India is Charlie's first and last.