“What if we don’t have a reason until we’re standing right in front of him?”
“Then we deal with whatever we find when we get there.” Kael took my hand.
“Sophia, we have been handling impossible stuff for six months straight. We are still here. Alaric is still here. That counts for something.”
I looked down at his hand holding mine.
“You are very steady these days,” I said.
“One of us has to be.”
“You were not always like this. Before all of this.”
“Before all of this, I did not have to be.” He stayed quiet for a moment.
“Necessity teaches its own kind of control.”
I leaned against him, just enough to feel the contact. Not falling apart, just staying connected.
When the whole world pushes you to crawl inside your own head, sometimes the smallest touch is the only thing that keep
