12-26-2018, 08:39 PM
Almost as though Kali had wished her home, Mommy appeared, just like that. Kali’s dark eyes went wide, and she gasped. Khari! she shouted at him, as if he wouldn’t have already known the instant she saw her. And then she was racing toward Mom, eyes welling up with tears. She crashed right into her, sobbing and wrapping herself around her and pulling her in tight for the world’s biggest hug.
“Mommy!” she cried, pressing her face into the curve of her mom’s beautiful shoulder, not caring if it meant she touched a stranger too. Or wedged her face in between them. She tried to say more, but mostly just dissolved into incoherent sobs, holding on tight and crying so hard.
Ohhh, she was really home, she was back, she was safe, she wasn’t dead or broken or disappeared or sucked into another time warp that would take her away for years and years! Kali just held her and sobbed, relief breaking through all of the protective layers of denial and pretty little lies she’d been trying to tell herself so she could hold onto some semblance of sanity instead of shattering into a million pieces and never being able to put herself back together again.
She wasn’t stolen away by the fairies, she wasn’t drowned or murdered or trapped or being tortured, she was home and she was safe and she wasn’t even old. Kali wasn’t going to have to finish growing up without her momma like Kylin, get old and have babies and be all alone with no mom to help her figure it out. She didn’t have to lose her mom too.
“I missed you so much. Don’t leave me.”
“Mommy!” she cried, pressing her face into the curve of her mom’s beautiful shoulder, not caring if it meant she touched a stranger too. Or wedged her face in between them. She tried to say more, but mostly just dissolved into incoherent sobs, holding on tight and crying so hard.
Ohhh, she was really home, she was back, she was safe, she wasn’t dead or broken or disappeared or sucked into another time warp that would take her away for years and years! Kali just held her and sobbed, relief breaking through all of the protective layers of denial and pretty little lies she’d been trying to tell herself so she could hold onto some semblance of sanity instead of shattering into a million pieces and never being able to put herself back together again.
She wasn’t stolen away by the fairies, she wasn’t drowned or murdered or trapped or being tortured, she was home and she was safe and she wasn’t even old. Kali wasn’t going to have to finish growing up without her momma like Kylin, get old and have babies and be all alone with no mom to help her figure it out. She didn’t have to lose her mom too.
“I missed you so much. Don’t leave me.”