11-04-2024, 09:53 PM
Myrna had thrived in the quiet peace. She’d found solace in the stillness, and had finally had time to put back together the parts of her that had been so deeply scattered. She’d even begun to worry that she liked the solitude too much.
The twins had been the final salve to that old wound, to her fear that she might somehow inflict an even worse childhood on Luvi and Ravin than the one she had endured.
Each day with them - with their inextinguishable curiosity and unconscious trust - reassures her. She is smiling at the thought of them even now, when her dark eyes finally focus on the horse that’s been drawing closer, and recognizes him with a widening of her bright expression.
“Only if you stick around long enough to meet them,” she teases, their last meeting having been little more than a quick hello as they crossed paths. “I don’t know how much of them you saw, but the girl is Luvi and the boy is Ravin.” They’ve got longer names, as well, but Myrna’s not quite ready to subject her younger sibling to the moon-addled ramblings of the children’s father.
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The twins had been the final salve to that old wound, to her fear that she might somehow inflict an even worse childhood on Luvi and Ravin than the one she had endured.
Each day with them - with their inextinguishable curiosity and unconscious trust - reassures her. She is smiling at the thought of them even now, when her dark eyes finally focus on the horse that’s been drawing closer, and recognizes him with a widening of her bright expression.
“Only if you stick around long enough to meet them,” she teases, their last meeting having been little more than a quick hello as they crossed paths. “I don’t know how much of them you saw, but the girl is Luvi and the boy is Ravin.” They’ve got longer names, as well, but Myrna’s not quite ready to subject her younger sibling to the moon-addled ramblings of the children’s father.
@Tersias