02-12-2008, 01:17 AM
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Laruku had never met his mother, even after the promise that had been relayed to him. Some days, he still believed that he would visit eventually, that there were things beyond her control that kept her from him, but most days, he knew he had already accepted a long time ago that it didn't matter. She was dead. There had been whole minutes when the both of them had been alive at the same time, but they hadn't lasted long. Since then, she had been dead and that wasn't about to change, ghostly visit or no. He had moved on from missing her, but everything else? His heart had been broken for two years. More than half his long and short life.
But he took heart in his friend's smile because it was just as rare as his own, which now lurked somewhere in the vacinity, just out of sight.
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Laruku had never met his mother, even after the promise that had been relayed to him. Some days, he still believed that he would visit eventually, that there were things beyond her control that kept her from him, but most days, he knew he had already accepted a long time ago that it didn't matter. She was dead. There had been whole minutes when the both of them had been alive at the same time, but they hadn't lasted long. Since then, she had been dead and that wasn't about to change, ghostly visit or no. He had moved on from missing her, but everything else? His heart had been broken for two years. More than half his long and short life.
But he took heart in his friend's smile because it was just as rare as his own, which now lurked somewhere in the vacinity, just out of sight.
Yeah,came the quiet agreement. For what? For themselves? For each other? For the families that didn't need them? The laughter in his head hadn't stopped, but he had gotten good at ignoring it. Laruku stood and it felt like years already since he had stretched his legs.
Let's get out of here.It wasn't a sanctuary. Not really. Those things only existed in their heads, just like everything else.