[Amelia looks surprised and touched at Henry's offer. And the words that follow are just uncharacteristically tender that it makes her heart seize and her green eyes well up with tears again. She shakes it off turning to the side so he doesn't have to look.
The witch had been living as if Briar had left. That the spaces that he occupied including within her felt vacant and worse off than before. The witch who had barely grown up despite her age felt abandoned once again.
But he had never left her empty-handed. He drew people into her life, good people who knew and understood her and didn't want to live in mourning.
She never expected after Briar's passing that a stranger from another world would help remind her of this. After several seconds, Amelia manages to speak apologetically.]
I don't suppose it was in your plans this evening to make an old woman cry.
[And there she is still; Amelia Steinbeck, a no-nonsense witch who continued to have a heart despite all the bad hands dealt to her.]
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The witch had been living as if Briar had left. That the spaces that he occupied including within her felt vacant and worse off than before. The witch who had barely grown up despite her age felt abandoned once again.
But he had never left her empty-handed. He drew people into her life, good people who knew and understood her and didn't want to live in mourning.
She never expected after Briar's passing that a stranger from another world would help remind her of this. After several seconds, Amelia manages to speak apologetically.]
I don't suppose it was in your plans this evening to make an old woman cry.
[And there she is still; Amelia Steinbeck, a no-nonsense witch who continued to have a heart despite all the bad hands dealt to her.]