Shadewood Here in the ashes

Her eyes softened at his voice. Her brows crinkling together and her eyes casting down, knowing he was looking at her. She didn't want to think that he was dying, that one day she'd not have him.
Understand?
She nodded, wanting to believe in him. Soon, she'd Be able to get over her doubts and help him better. Stop being such a down heartened bitch.

She looked to him, her eyes clearer. "I don't want them to be lied to. I don't want to tell them lies about us, it's better they know."
She remembered being lied to time and time again as 'protection' from the outside world. Asking where her uncle went and being told he was on a trip, later finding his body half eaten in the neighboring woods. She didn't want to be her parents. Her family. She was not them. Though she kept to their traditions, for now.
"We'll be ok." She said it to assure herself more than anything, bumping her shoulder against his gently.