Wheeling Gull Isle Still you give yourself away

Keeping this vague since what are timelines? Lol!!

So much had happened as of late, and Simeon still hadn't make sense of it all.

For a long time, he been on his own. Then, it had been him and Malakai. Now, Dee too - and Judah! As though back from the dead. Gramma still lingered on the Isle, and John - a connection back to mom, and maybe even Ava, Ana...

Family, being knit together - or so it should have been.

Simeon noticed how Malakai retreated, how Dee now planted herself at Judah's side where Kai used to be. Simeon bounced between them all, but the loss of dad, then Judah, then the Isle itself, had left them fissured, fractured.

He set out that morning to pray. A pillar in the early light, though frayed himself and broken at the edges. He'd dreamed of the day they would all come together again and make this place their home. But it seemed El Shaddai had other plans for them.

Always good, but still... why like this?

He sighed as lavender warmed the air around him.