Wherever you go, there you are.

(Written for cygnes and the prompt: "driving for many hours through mountains.")

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.