Stone Circle Well, I've been afraid of changing

She stood with him, as he shook and sobbed, the pain carried from his slumped shoulders to be shared between them. It was all to much. He couldn't think, he couldn't even breath without her. How was he supposed to do this, how was he supposed to raise his children on his own. He could barely even face them now considering what he had let happen. He couldn't raise them. When she died she took whatever made him believe he could be a good father. He had a shit father, and had no doubt that without her he too would be a shit father.

"I don't know what to do Taki." Her childhood nickname falling easily from his tongue. His voice was barely above a whisper and he wouldn't be surprised if she missed it all together. He doubted Takiyok really understood how much Nanook had meant to him, how much she had done for him. The way she held him together when nothing else would. His sister did not know the things Nanook knew. There were things that he had only ever told her, and now, now he was alone with his greatest burden. His mind.