when you bury your pain
"If I wait even longer than that, we'll just have to take a stroller with us." Coming from anyone else, it might almost sound sweet - Finn and Tobi and their baby going for a meander through the Celestine on some nice, sunny day. But for the Spyglass it's just cold logic and they both know it. So off they go towards the front doors to the Tower - the sun is already beaming in through the windows, and it's setting up to be a bright, hot day. And neither of them care about what people think of them, so that's... fine. It's all fine.
She folds into his arms - arms that hold her much more securely than she does in return, and he smiles and carefully tucks a lock of her hair back behind her ear. "We will make this work," he says, sounding more sure about it than he feels. "I know I'm not... what anyone might imagine, for their father. But I'm going to try my best."
She folds into his arms - arms that hold her much more securely than she does in return, and he smiles and carefully tucks a lock of her hair back behind her ear. "We will make this work," he says, sounding more sure about it than he feels. "I know I'm not... what anyone might imagine, for their father. But I'm going to try my best."
THE SPYGLASS
you only strengthen its roots
