Stone Circle vittorio

It annoyed Laurel a lot that Merrick seemed to get stuck in sad mode. It annoyed her because she could do nothing to stop it and it made her feel out of control. Nobody had comforted her when she was sad and crying when she was any age, so why should he deserve to be comforted? She had tried to do that -- she'd already given him more than anyone but Indra had ever given her in this world -- but it just wasn't enough for him.

Stop whimpering, she thought, but she just couldn't say the words. Instead, she remained silent even as he looked at her and said he had waited, and then she repeated: You weren't there. We looked, after, but you'd gone away. Her words sounded colder than she intended but it was all that she could do to keep herself from snapping and be either demeaning by saying he should stop crying, or outright shout at him. She wanted neither, so this was all she could do for now.