I found my foundation changed by your patience
It's best he tells her now in the early dawn of their preferred hours, because what he shares is of such magnitude that she'll need the remainder of the day to grapple with it. Maybe an entire season, because it's enormous. Not so much ripples in a lake from a large stone as a tsunami from a volcanic eruption. "If I say any of the expletives I'm currently thinking I'll never get an answer at a shrine again," she blurts after a long stretch of silence spent wrangling all of those phrases.
She's afraid to hope after so long under cover of darkness and fear, but the Grounds in her blood has never needed hope to persevere in bleak circumstances. If the feeling comes with time she will embrace it with open arms. For now, it is a cautious thing that she keeps in the corner of her heart. Evie doesn't doubt her husband feels the same.
"I don't know how long it will take to feel like I believe it. But I don't want to live like this didn't happen, you know?" Because then what would be the worth of all that risk and pain? What would success be worth if they didn't at least try to reclaim their lives and happiness?
She's afraid to hope after so long under cover of darkness and fear, but the Grounds in her blood has never needed hope to persevere in bleak circumstances. If the feeling comes with time she will embrace it with open arms. For now, it is a cautious thing that she keeps in the corner of her heart. Evie doesn't doubt her husband feels the same.
"I don't know how long it will take to feel like I believe it. But I don't want to live like this didn't happen, you know?" Because then what would be the worth of all that risk and pain? What would success be worth if they didn't at least try to reclaim their lives and happiness?
No one has ever made me feel this safe, this free, this me
Evie
