// won't you breathe with me? //
She laughed, surprised that it didn't hurt as much to think back on those days as it used to. "You could say that. It was my grandfather, father, my brother Noah and myself, his wife and their children. Only two of them ever got to meet gramps before he passed; the youngest never met dad either. But when all of them were still around? Gods, the walls rang with sound from sun up till sundown."
Shaking her head with fond melancholy at the memory, she turned slowly to follow the walls with her gaze, absorbing the simple yet comfortable cabin. She could understand his feeling of being a hermit, if he too had been used to the bustle of a burgeoning family. Did he find it as difficult as she had, to accept that those loved ones were truly gone, never to return? Their absence had been absolute in her case, and she'd found comfort only in the confirmation of Ludo that they were well, and cared for, far more at peace than herself.
Shaking her head with fond melancholy at the memory, she turned slowly to follow the walls with her gaze, absorbing the simple yet comfortable cabin. She could understand his feeling of being a hermit, if he too had been used to the bustle of a burgeoning family. Did he find it as difficult as she had, to accept that those loved ones were truly gone, never to return? Their absence had been absolute in her case, and she'd found comfort only in the confirmation of Ludo that they were well, and cared for, far more at peace than herself.
Maea
// won't you take me to your heart? //
