The Plants Can't Breathe Down Here
Starter for @mpxinvidia
Tau hadn't been around in a while, really much of anywhere other than work and the library. It wasn't often that he mulled over the past as normally he saw that as something not worth dwelling on. Learning over the years that it doesn't do much other than hold you back from living in the present, but for some reason he had been plagued by his childhood. His parents, his old little clay home, the kind woman he called مامي. He missed her the most. His parents he...didn't really remember them, but his مامي? He missed her more than the world. She taught him independence, love, how to accept care and how to care for all living things from the smallest bug to a person. She was the one who supported him when he said he wanted to travel the world even at such a young age, and she was always there for him when he came back to tell her about all the cool things he found and learned.
"عزيزتي تاو ، يجب أن تعلم أنني أتقدم في السن." He remembers that day fairly often. The day he realized that death would cradle everyone, and it was her that showed him that death wasn't a bad thing. That sometimes it came like a warm hug that would consume someone with the utmost respect. Everytime he remembered that day he would spend some time alone to respect her death and think of her fondly, rarely ever did he let it get him sad, but for some reason recently he was missing her so much he wished he could hear her gentle voice again.
He couldn't hear her voice though, not when he wasn't in his home town, so he sat homesick for a good while, and it wasn't until listening to one of his favorite songs did he realize, The Plants Can't Breathe Down Here, and neither could he. Sitting in his home and thinking so lowly wasn't good for him and it started to feel suffocating, so he set out for the day, picking his favorite warm sweater that was way too big for him even with him being so tall, and made his way to Invidia's place. He had been there before, so it was easy to tell it was his knock when the gentleness of it came. Hopefully his friend wasn't busy.
