It’s a moment she’d only dreamed of, standing before the boy she’d left behind—her boy. Regret was a feeling she’d known would be there; it teased at the dark of her lids and gripped at her chest upon waking, and yet…the burn of it now was almost unbearable.
Suspended immortal by her memory, the little bundle of a crying and sweet child was changed, now. Keith was grown, a soldier and Paladin for the universe to praise. It was a knife’s edge truth, but he was no longer hers, and it was a consequence of her choices that she’d needed to make peace with.
“…You’ve grown so much—” she blurts out first, inwardly wincing at her start; of course he has. She proceeds with a soft breath.
“I just want to tell you, whenever you’re ready…I’m here, Keith. We can talk and I can answer whatever you need me to.” // ( @bladesmcn ♥ to plot ! )
