Like a flower waiting to bloom.
With Ivar not around, Kylin finds it hard to not drown in sadness. Ever since the Kelpie had found his way back to Ischia – after having been gone for a long while too – he had made sure to wipe all sadness from her mind, something she is unaware of until today. So she cannot say that all she has known was sadness, she has experienced some good years too. But her family’s return plunges her back into the sadness that had swallowed her before, as if she is drowning over and over again.
Mother’s words are met with a slight nod of her head, and a forced smile. Things could always be worse, could they? Of that the lavender girl tries to convince herself, but what she finds hard, now her world is falling apart all over again.
“I want to go home..” she murmurs, hazel eyes going in the direction she knows that Ischia lies. Ischia has been her only home, ever, and to be away from it makes her restless, afraid even. But she knows she can’t. Not without risking her own life, and the one of those she cares about. Because yes, Kylin still loves her family dearly, even if they are the cause of her current heartache.
Or perhaps should she say her long lasting heartache which she had tried to banish to the back of her mind.
Kylin slowly lifts her head and bends it to glance at the mother, hazel eyes meeting the soft face for the mother she has always looked up to. So strong, so fierce, but now so lost, and broken. In a way Kylin has never seen before. But Kylin is just as broken. “Busy?” she asks, her dished head tilting. “With what?” Even on Ischia Kylin had not kept herself busy, as she had been hiding on one of the smaller islands. Ischia had not needed her, why would that be different here? There is nothing she can offer.
She can see the pain in her families eyes whenever she looks at them, and her two girls do not need her anymore. Kylin is not even sure if both Kyveli and Kypria are still on Island Resort, and she realises again that she fails as a mother. She should look for them, make sure they are okay, but a voice in the back of her mind tells her nagging that one of them is an adult, and the other wound would be too.
Kylin could no longer tell them where to go.
Kylin
@[Wallace]