Shady

She sped up a bit, afraid of losing his tracks. She couldn’t even hear him. Gods. She shouldn’t have gone for her coat. She should have stayed with him. Her ...

It took her a little to find his foot prints past the shoveled snow, since she’d originally checked going towards the grove. But she figured it out and furrowed her ...

She went and got on a heavy fur coat and snow boots, then headed outside and looked for which way his foot prints had gone. She couldn’t help but remember ...

She had a really bad feeling in her gut, and headed for her own room.

She furrowed her brow, watching him. “Are you okay?”

She furrowed her brow and stepped closer to him, putting her hand on his shoulder. “What’s wrong?”

“Yeah.” She nodded, too. Something felt very off. “It’ll be good to see them. Mother says they miss us as much as we miss them.”

“Yeah!” Ky grinned. “Me too! She’s really cute. I’ve never really seen a baby learn all the baby things. At least not since I’ve been old enough to really understand. ...

“Yeah… a little sad we’ll miss it, huh?” She mused. “Perhaps we’ll get there in the nick of time.”

“… to tell you they love and miss you and give you a hug from everyone… and that Raina is crawling and will probably be walking by the time we ...

She looked at him skeptically. Something felt very off.

“I thought you said you were getting ready for dinner?” She frowned at him. “You promised you’d come.”

She walked in. “Mother wrote! She said—“ she furrowed her brow. “What are you doing?”

(*swats with rolled up newspaper*) She knocked on his door and then tried the door, too distracted to wait for a response first.

She read the whole letter several times over, smiling a bit more each time. Especially the last bit. Love, Mother. Love, Mother. Mother. Love. She hugged it to her chest, ...