“As a child, I would have done anything to take away his sadness, to bring that rare smile to his lips, and yet, when this mood was on him, he would shrug off touch, would cut short my anxious queries. Later he would do his best to make up for it, sharing a tale by the fire, listening patiently as I recounted the small events of my day. I had longed to make his world right, and had known I could not. My love for him had coloured my life then, and it did so still. It was my grandmother’s strongest weapon, and it bound me to shadows and betrayal.”
Oh Fainne. She loves her father so much and would do anything for him.😭 I also feel sorry for her, though. It would’ve been so hard having to grow up with a father who is very clearly clinically depressed. I mean, it’s clear that Ciaran was trying his best, but it still must suck for Fainne to see him so depressed and be unable to help him at all.