( the pause is long, and the drink she takes more deep, and finally what she settles on isβ )
In my experience, that's something one prefers to handle alone. He knows where I am; what I did.
( she hadn't guessed it was for his mother, but it explains a great deal about those terse exchanges. )
I'll let him come to me when he's ready to.
( it's not just for his benefit. gwenaΓ«lle isn't sure she could handle the roughest edges of such a familiar grief, not when her own isβ
too close, still. and she would have wanted it to be on her own terms; did want it to be on her own terms. the thought of pushing where she would not have wanted to be pushed is a discomforting, unpleasant one. )
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In my experience, that's something one prefers to handle alone. He knows where I am; what I did.
( she hadn't guessed it was for his mother, but it explains a great deal about those terse exchanges. )
I'll let him come to me when he's ready to.
( it's not just for his benefit. gwenaΓ«lle isn't sure she could handle the roughest edges of such a familiar grief, not when her own isβ
too close, still. and she would have wanted it to be on her own terms; did want it to be on her own terms. the thought of pushing where she would not have wanted to be pushed is a discomforting, unpleasant one. )