[private] watch your heart move slowly from your hands

[Agetta]

Although Agetta could remember that a few days ago she had been heartbroken, she could not remember why - so she assumes it must not have been all that important. The feelings are hazy and distant, almost like someone else had been telling her a story. And maybe that’s all it was, someone else’s heartbreak affecting her. She thinks she's always been rather prone to letting the stories of others affect her a little too much. Or perhaps she had seen a baby bird that had fallen out of a tree and been abandoned, or it had been the remains of someone unfortunate enough not to escape the creatures in the darkness. It is gone now, whatever it was. What she knows is that when dawn breaks out on this late autumn day and reveals a thin layer of snow, she smiles for the beauty of it. Smiles knowing this is the first winter her young granddaughters will get to experience, their first chance at seeing snow. She thinks about going to find Beyza and the girls again but for now, she decides to just wander on this early morning - keeping her dark eyes open for new friends. Her pale body brushes snow off of the long grass as she moves through it and for once in her long life there is nothing terribly important bogging down her mind. There are worries, like whether Holler and her other children are doing okay in this moment, but she just makes a note to find them when she can and thinks nothing more of it for now. In fact, the only thought that lingers is that the dark clouds on the horizon suggest there will be more snow coming in soon. we are made of starstuff

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