Hideaway Strath I long for that look of surprise when you see your son rising at last

Not gonna lie, her praise felt pretty good, and whether he knew it or not he stood a little taller under the glow of her pride. Forgetting, for this sunshine moment, that he hadn’t been able to find dad or Mulberry or Thyme — because he had, in the end, managed to find her, and maybe he could rest in this awhile.

Oh yeah, I met loads! some of their faces, more clear than others, some of their teachings, a little more binding.

:Kinda came and went, he thought of :the woman he had sung with even here in these wilds, been all over round the Strath, thought of Nikolaus and the crypts beneath his gardens, feels like I’ve been all over the world.

Did you… always live in the Strath? He knew mom must’ve had a life before he’d been born, but as a kid, he’d never really realized and never really thought to ask.