12-12-2010, 08:24 AM
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She returned a quick smile and entered; Dawali closed his hut's opening ('door' was hardly a fitting word for it) and followed, finding her sitting down already. He sat as well. Clearly, she was uncomfortable, and the Chief felt a sting of remorse at seeing her in that way. It only reminded him too much of their last meeting. They had rarely met in the past year and a half, and when they did it was more often over her children than anything else. And as the children one by one moved elsewhere or ...disappeared, so had his own presence around the Aston family home. It was not fair to anyone, and he didn't know why it had gone down the way it had. Different theories, answers to the obvious question, spun in his head as she spoke, fearing that Claudius, too, had gone missing now. Would this woman never catch a break? Her children were everywhere, and her sister had left her. It seemed to him that little sunshine had reached her lately. "What is it, Tayui?" He spoke softly, and the close walls of his home hushed the words further. He was not entirely certain that he would like to hear the answer, for if further miseries had befallen her... he would not know what to do or how to react anymore. He just hoped that her heavy heart was due to something simpler than what he had seen before.
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She returned a quick smile and entered; Dawali closed his hut's opening ('door' was hardly a fitting word for it) and followed, finding her sitting down already. He sat as well. Clearly, she was uncomfortable, and the Chief felt a sting of remorse at seeing her in that way. It only reminded him too much of their last meeting. They had rarely met in the past year and a half, and when they did it was more often over her children than anything else. And as the children one by one moved elsewhere or ...disappeared, so had his own presence around the Aston family home. It was not fair to anyone, and he didn't know why it had gone down the way it had. Different theories, answers to the obvious question, spun in his head as she spoke, fearing that Claudius, too, had gone missing now. Would this woman never catch a break? Her children were everywhere, and her sister had left her. It seemed to him that little sunshine had reached her lately. "What is it, Tayui?" He spoke softly, and the close walls of his home hushed the words further. He was not entirely certain that he would like to hear the answer, for if further miseries had befallen her... he would not know what to do or how to react anymore. He just hoped that her heavy heart was due to something simpler than what he had seen before.