# MINE IN EVERY LIFETIME
## Chapter Twenty Two — *Father And Son*
Edmund was standing at the window when Caius came in.
Looking at the mountain.
The same way Caius stood at windows when he needed to think. Hands loose at his sides. Weight on both feet. The posture of a man who had learned to be still when everything inside him was not.
Caius stood in the doorway for a moment.
Looking at the back of his father's head.
At the grey at his temples.
At twelve years of absence standing at a window in a compound in Varda territory on a Tuesday morning like it was something that could just walk back through a door.
He came inside.
He closed the door.
Edmund turned around.
They looked at each other.
No Mara between them. No Outer Council session. No Elder in the room providing a reason
