Kali:
I lay here, sunrise after sunrise until three days had passed.
My heart ached more with each passing second until my skin felt raw and my bones ached, and no matter how hard I tried, I could not find them in my dreams again.
I've learned to lose them, but I had never had the opportunity to love, mark, or hold them the way I had this time, and to lose that, losing it all when it was in my grasp, is torturing me.
"Kali?" I heard my Great-Grandfather Alistair's call from somewhere in the house, but I didn't have the energy to call out and let him know I still hadn't left the nest I had created.
"There you are." I heard how his smile seemed to pity me as if he could feel the weight of my sorrow.
"Why are you here?" I rolled over, rolled away from his sorrowful gaze.
He sat o
