"We don't go for marriage where I come from, it's nearly always politics when someone does, not passion." Fern deserves the explanation, that this is the nature of the beast at times.
(Follow-up for after: did you write to your parents yet Fern?)
There's no room for false modesty in Araceli's kitchen, the compliment accepted with a smile the same way her hand darts out to finally catch Korrin's when it's making another trip the Lux direction. Her cry of enough is only teasing, the jab with the fork playful.
"Tell her,"Araceli says and her eyes are wet and burning. The fork is put down, the other hand blindly finds Korrin's because she's not doing saying this without her hand. "Please tell her, there are so many things we don't know and don't get to say and that's such a good thing, a happy thing. Korrin is right. To be surrounded by love is how she should go, she should know she had this. Even now." Her throat hurts when she takes a sip of her tea but her hand is steady on Fern's arm at least when she rests it there a moment.
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(Follow-up for after: did you write to your parents yet Fern?)
There's no room for false modesty in Araceli's kitchen, the compliment accepted with a smile the same way her hand darts out to finally catch Korrin's when it's making another trip the Lux direction. Her cry of enough is only teasing, the jab with the fork playful.
"Tell her,"Araceli says and her eyes are wet and burning. The fork is put down, the other hand blindly finds Korrin's because she's not doing saying this without her hand. "Please tell her, there are so many things we don't know and don't get to say and that's such a good thing, a happy thing. Korrin is right. To be surrounded by love is how she should go, she should know she had this. Even now." Her throat hurts when she takes a sip of her tea but her hand is steady on Fern's arm at least when she rests it there a moment.