She had been fighting it, but calling her 'Louise' just breaks the last thing she had, and the thirty-six year old woman gasps in sobs as she curls into her uncle's arms.
She was seven when her mother died, fifteen when her dad followed. She's buried an Uncle, sent a sister off to uncertain death, and submitted a child to the Earth Kingdom for the look of it.
And finally something's managed to knock the wind out of her.
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Date: 2007-05-16 10:32 am (UTC)She was seven when her mother died, fifteen when her dad followed. She's buried an Uncle, sent a sister off to uncertain death, and submitted a child to the Earth Kingdom for the look of it.
And finally something's managed to knock the wind out of her.