Delphine
The shoes, of course, were not there. She'd lost them long before the nice couple had brought her here. "I asked... to have my memories removed." She explained, as she crawled up on the porch to dig through the blanket nest, "...of home, of the children, because," she huffed in frustration, sitting in the center of the blanket nest.
"They were little babies before we came here, and they never felt like my babies here. So I thought, maybe if I didn't remember them then I could learn to love them and..." She shook her head, voice breaking, "...now I'm all alone." Her children had been a mere-months-old, prior to being transported to Caido, where they were suddenly three years old, speaking, talking, walking. Everything she'd missed had turned them into... aliens, strangers. And that had turned what should have been a love for them into resentment, hatred.
After a moment of quiet, she murmured, "It told me to learn to love my memories. But why would I want to remember how alone I am?"
"They were little babies before we came here, and they never felt like my babies here. So I thought, maybe if I didn't remember them then I could learn to love them and..." She shook her head, voice breaking, "...now I'm all alone." Her children had been a mere-months-old, prior to being transported to Caido, where they were suddenly three years old, speaking, talking, walking. Everything she'd missed had turned them into... aliens, strangers. And that had turned what should have been a love for them into resentment, hatred.
After a moment of quiet, she murmured, "It told me to learn to love my memories. But why would I want to remember how alone I am?"
Let me make you smile, darling.
