Redsand Canyon Demons

The woman admitted to feeling numb and Aquene nodded. It was common when faced with loss… even to those who did not experience as much loss as the woman in front of her. “It’s your brain’s way of trying to protect itself.” She explained softly. “You’re trying to process and so your brain has turned off your emotions for a time.” It was another reason that the healer would encourage her to let it out. She started to inhale the lavender and Aquene watched as the tears began… and it was the mention of burying her children and mate, something a woman should never need to do, that brought out the emotions once more.
 
Aquene settled by her side, hoping the body contact might give her an anchor, a controlled way to lose herself in her grief. She rested her chin atop the woman’s head. “Let it out… I will not say it is okay. What you have gone through is horrible, and painful, and it is not okay right now… but it is okay to not be okay. It is okay to grieve, to feel these emotions.” She felt tears prick her own eyes though she dared not let them fall.