You know you'll get a telling off for this young lady!
Even so, Mrs Denton supported the girl slowly from her bed and across the room. Slow, muscle weakened legs stepping as silently as they could toward the entrance of the building, the young woman only responding with a..
Nothing changes then.
It was peaceful and just shy of dawn. Not daring to venture steps yet, they both sat just outside of the Soothery door, a shawl around the large woman, a blanket around the girl, the sun gradually turning the sky from fading stars in a black embrace, to indigo. The young woman filled her lungs with the fresh air, the tightness felt bearable, a reminder she was alive.
Calming down now? You were in a proper sweat with the last one you had.
Aye, better now
And what were this one about?
Carrion birds
Oh, dare I ask what they were picking at?
They be hopping around, getting closer, looking for scraps.
Well scavengers be doing them things dear, taking whats left. Opportunists they be, they wait for a dead animal, fallen by a hunter, a wolf or the like. Horrible things, cunning too I suppose, they don't be needing to do all the work, they just swoop in and take what they fancy. Are you still determined to do something silly?
Aye
Right, I suppose you'll be needing your Pa to be bringing the cart then, unless you want Quentin to carry you again.
The girl smiled at that, a smile long due, albeit small. The sun slowly rose, painting the sky with its warm hues, casting away the darkness.
He were lovely, ain't certain I've forgiven him yet though, never wanted to come here in the first place. Torture it is, watching something die.
You ain't dying lass, you're on the mend
I weren't talking about me health
Denton muttered out a..
Here we go again, Look here lass, your feelings, they'll never go proper, but they'll fade a bit. Don't be letting his words hurt you, like a child I were told he were, he don't know how to talk to folk, how to love them. It be nothing you've done, you tried and you've fought, come through the worst of illness, he don't understand how scared you were, pity him if anything, don't blame him though. Aye, you wont be the last to try and love him, they'll all suffer the same though, he were made this way. You were made with your heart on your sleeve, he were made not understanding what hearts be like.
The older woman placed a hand to the girls head
You be getting a bit chilled dear, we should go inside
In a bit, I want to see the sun come up, it's nice that.
So the two sat a while in silence, the sound of the birds around them, feeding their young, even the carrion birds.
