Daniel bent down to gather her up, their reflection glittered their way through the reflections, highlighted in the low light of the battery operated flame. Seeing them there, watching himself move and get lost at the edge of one mirror and be seen in another reminded him of his own memories, how they would stop and strand him in a place he couldn’t recognize. But this time, it was new. He imagined them to be new at least. They were teaching him just as Isabelle and his now fiance were, to let go of the old and allow the new to be with him. To live in the present.
Not to fret over the future.
But never fully forget the past.
She couldn’t possibly know just how deeply it resonated with him. Each step forward had him watching how they moved from one to the next all the way down to his
