Jude
Her firm but gentle insistence is exactly what he needs in this moment, what she has always done for him. Jude has always struggled with self-confidence and anxiety but ever since meeting Sohalia amidst the berries that day she has been like a golden cloud that blocks out all the noise inside his head.
With her absolution wrapping its way around his shoulders, Jude crumbles, and the tears finally come in full. Only this time they are abjectly relieved. “I was so scared Soh,” he hiccups into her shoulder, arms tight around her. “I didn’t sleep the whole flight because I was so scared it wasn’t real, or that she wouldn’t make the journey and she’d be gone if I took my eyes off her.” He can’t even say the word dead, just as he’d never been able to even when debating all the reasons Maeve might not have come home. “A-And now I’m older, and dad is King, and - how is anything gonna be normal again? For her? For us?” Pulling back finally, tears still free falling, Jude looks into her face with creases of desperation lining his own young countenance. Desperate for guidance and comfort.
With her absolution wrapping its way around his shoulders, Jude crumbles, and the tears finally come in full. Only this time they are abjectly relieved. “I was so scared Soh,” he hiccups into her shoulder, arms tight around her. “I didn’t sleep the whole flight because I was so scared it wasn’t real, or that she wouldn’t make the journey and she’d be gone if I took my eyes off her.” He can’t even say the word dead, just as he’d never been able to even when debating all the reasons Maeve might not have come home. “A-And now I’m older, and dad is King, and - how is anything gonna be normal again? For her? For us?” Pulling back finally, tears still free falling, Jude looks into her face with creases of desperation lining his own young countenance. Desperate for guidance and comfort.
stop trying to keep this alive
you're pointing at stars in the sky that already died
you're pointing at stars in the sky that already died
