Firefly Glen Happens each time a boy falls in love with a girl

she did not wish to be distant from the embrace of her daughters, but nephele could only pretend for so long before the corner of her lips no longer held the strength force a smile. she did not wish her children to worry, and so when her girls raised questions on their missing brother, the mother simply told them that it would be ok.

it would be ok.

a lie — a lie she told her daughters, and herself. she had gone back to the place his scent had vanished more than once now. what hope might have yet clung to her heart was withering away.

she stood now on the brink of emotional fatigue, but her resolution would not let her rest. quietly she paced through the glen, thoughts rattling like bells in her mind, the steps of a nearing stranger not but a faint buzz in the background.