Firefly Glen [PHE] kru

last for me ;;;<333

there was no reason to apologize! john would not take it — he would not see any reason for her to make amends for these things beyond both of them. in warmth and in peace she existed, closed eyes tightening only in wistfulness for a moment as he spoke.
sungold gaze swam open, climbing to his own.
many months ago she might have whispered it should have been you in some paroxysm of weak romance, fluting to life only at the end of her own.
another blow to a heart who had only adored her, only ever wanted health and success for the life of her family. his own, in truth; he had become one of them, though belief. through effort.
"i love you, john."
and heda — heda once more for this dream in his arms — set him free to take her words as his heart desired.
sleep then, overtaking her with a weariness that no slumber could abate; easily. peacefully, a finality in the goodness of this slumber while john sat with her for the last time.
before the ticking found its end elsewhere, a place with lavender tingeing the air.