Firefly Glen these broken walls

i think it's my turn then but lmk if im wrong! <3

ana remained very still through the first words.

as if any kind of emotion or movement might scare off whatever dream she was currently grasping for. yet some baseline instinct stirred in her gut. if it was good, he would be here. if he was with her, there would be no need for her to stand here alone before them.

edge of a forest.

a river.

her mother did not need to say it. the guilt suddenly so crushing upon her that it felt as if someone had dropped a rock upon her skull. dizzied and vision tunneling with the adrenaline spike. this was her fault, she thought. if only she had looked a bit more or stayed closer to him.

instead she had hunted with morwenna. she had played with the moonglow girl. she had learned of the sea from lafayette. she had been with everyone besides who she should have.

the look on her face was likely one that had been seen by her mother before.

the look that almost every child prepared to proclaim i don't feel good gave before disgust happened.

she opened her mouth, gulped air. a lump in her throat that felt like it blocked both words and oxygen.

no, she could not blame her mother, she would never. instead she only blamed herself and wondered if they would too.