and I tried to remember how nice it had been
"Shhh..." Vai doesn't need the apologies, not when her daughter is safely tucked in her arms for the first time in years. All she needs is this - a moment neither of them could have expected or dreamed of having - and she won't let anything sour it, not for a second. "You were exactly where you needed to be," she corrects. "For yourself, for your own life. You know I'd never blame you for that." For being wild and untamed, for dancing on the wind and vanishing like a shadow in the firelight.
Smoothing a gentle hand through Ashe's dark hair, Vai plants a kiss against the crown of her head - and another to her forehead when she straightens up, however little it might be. "Then tell me. Ask me," she says, the words spilling out through a smiling whisper. Keeping her daughter tucked close, she takes them further beneath one of the canvas tents, where they can find a little corner to sit and talk.
"You haven't seen anyone else yet?" she guesses. "Not even the hosts...? They are going to lose it when they realise you're here."
Smoothing a gentle hand through Ashe's dark hair, Vai plants a kiss against the crown of her head - and another to her forehead when she straightens up, however little it might be. "Then tell me. Ask me," she says, the words spilling out through a smiling whisper. Keeping her daughter tucked close, she takes them further beneath one of the canvas tents, where they can find a little corner to sit and talk.
"You haven't seen anyone else yet?" she guesses. "Not even the hosts...? They are going to lose it when they realise you're here."
a long long time ago
Vervain
