Hushed Willows by the color tv glow

i feel like larkspur is me irl... which apparently means i may be your dog according to stevie LOL

As she joined him and that smile turned sad, he found himself pausing. Concern laced his expression; this was not the reaction he had hoped for at all. Then again, who could really blame her? With all that they had been through, it was a wonder that any of them could muster the desire to rise and carry on through the day. Truly, he was lost as to how to pull her free from that funk and found himself hesitating.

"What's wrong?" Better question would have been what wasn't. Where had that momentary spark of happiness gone that he had just seen a few days prior? If that wasn't a sucker punch to just how much his children were growing up, he didn't know what else could be. No longer were they content with distraction from reality, and no longer could he shield them from the gravity of many situations.