Stone Circle Homesick

Her heart jilts.

His despondency has gone, now it is him reassuring her, and he is no longer a child- is this the point when she’s supposed to let him go? After all, she left home at the age of one. But Skáld is not like her, he has always clung to her side. She simply has always believed he would be with her; that he doesn’t want independence because he needs her. It is this repeating narrative that prevents her from seeing that the truth is actually the other way around.

She looks deeply into his emerald stare, her own eyes glazing. She knows they are selfish tears, and that her words are also, but she utters them regardless, “Is there no way for me to keep you?”

She wants what is best for him, to see his world expand and with it his confidence, so why does this hurt so much?

She didn’t want a home if Skáld wasn’t in it.