After a moment, Daisy tilted her head, curious. "Liora, aren't you going to get one for your mom too?"
Liora paused. Her fingers stilled on the keychain, and something shifted in her expression, something small and hard to name. Her voice came out softer, quieter. "I'll get one later…"
"Oh..." Daisy nodded, accepting that answer without question.
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Back at Elodie's Place~
After dinner, Elodie read for a while. The apartment was quiet in that particular way it only got at night, no traffic sounds filtering up from the street, no neighbors moving around. Just the soft hum of the refrigerator and the occasional creak of the building settling.
She liked it. The stillness. It gave her space to breathe.
Eventually, she set the book down and headed to the bathroom for a shower.
