Three Sisters Hoops

Near Canmore, not far from where Iris grew up, three mountain peaks rise side by side so closely that locals just call them the Three Sisters — no one remembers if they were named for actual sisters, or just because that's what three things leaning on each other look like. Iris always thought that was the point: nobody asks where the story started, they just know the shape holds. These hoops are wound the same way — three strands, none of them standing alone, each one keeping the others from slipping. For the people in your life who hold you up without you having to ask.