She tenses instinctively, even as Rani wraps her up in a hug. I'm not your daughter is on her lips, the memory of her own mother's staggering corpse suddenly fresh in her mind. And then she thinks, This is stupid, it's not what she means.

That's when she relaxes a little, her eyes closing, and buries her face in Rani's shoulder.

(Sometime later, she'll wonder if Maggie ever felt this way. If she'd stiffened and shoved Mama away despite wanting someone's comfort, even if she couldn't have her own mother.)