Nobody came to help.
Garrett called once that winter to ask whether she had “finally admitted defeat.”
Her mother mailed a holiday card with no note inside.
Her father said through a phone speaker that land did not become valuable just because someone got sentimental about it.
Then Sienna found the wildflowers.
They were tucked along one strip of the property where the soil drained differently, where the wind softened coming over the slope and the ground held just enough life to argue back.
