[ instead of having coffee. she can bring him dinner, because she's a fantastic wife, thank you very much. but despite the suggestion, dutch makes no move to let go of him, doesn't shift away. instead, she shifts her weight a little, distributing it more evenly between her feet so that she can take more of his weight, wrapping her arms firmly around him.
this isn't normal. the shuddering, the way he's behaving —none of it.
(she has her own flashes of memories, the words little bird echoing in her skull, but they're distant and she's good at pushing them away, at ignoring them.) ]
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[ instead of having coffee. she can bring him dinner, because she's a fantastic wife, thank you very much. but despite the suggestion, dutch makes no move to let go of him, doesn't shift away. instead, she shifts her weight a little, distributing it more evenly between her feet so that she can take more of his weight, wrapping her arms firmly around him.
this isn't normal. the shuddering, the way he's behaving —none of it.
(she has her own flashes of memories, the words little bird echoing in her skull, but they're distant and she's good at pushing them away, at ignoring them.) ]