-Laelia-
I wasn’t sure if I was being cruel for asking him, but everyone kept asking me that question. Shouldn’t I ask it too? I wasn’t the only one who had lost something, yet everyone seemed to worry about me, as if Ashes hadn’t lost a child too. Or maybe he had just decided to forget, maybe he didn’t even really care.
“No, I didn’t,” he said.
Good, I thought, but then why didn’t he show more pain? Why didn’t he seem more affected?
“So, how do you feel?” I inquired.
There was silence for a while. Then he turned his head away, so I could barely see his face. Why was he doing that? But then I noticed the arm around me tightened, and I felt his whole body tense. I placed my small hand on the other side of his face and gently turned it back toward me. His eyes were closed, but I saw it
