Redhawk Caldera If the whole wide world stops spinning

It did calm down Eljay when Maia started to groom his face. The emotions he felt were conflicting on many areas and it was hard to sort through all of them -- the grief, the harsh pain of a returned realisation, the fond memories of sweet baby boy Peter and the love he felt, both for Peter as well as....... this moment. Eljay was content just to lean against Maia and let her take care of him because there was nothing else that he could do right now but go with the flow of this crazy river ride. Swimming up the current would bring him nowhere.

I don't know, he said at first, but after a few seconds, like before, he still answered and remembered some details. I'd fall to the ground so he could feel like a big strong warrior. Eljay remembered so vividly because he'd played the big brother that he wished that he had had when he was young and terrified of the world.