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#11

05-25-2013, 10:15 AM

...aylin...

crying isn't secret, it's the art of how we grieve

Knox would probably never know just how happy I am that he stays where he is and doesn't pull away from me. Maybe he feels the same thing I do, though. Maybe he feels the same comfort even if we're both strangers. But are we really strangers? I know so much of his father, the same father that lives deep within him, from the stories that my mother told of him and I'm sure he knows of my mother. Doesn't that give us a common ground that makes us less strangers and more acquaintances, if anything? We can become friends, though, I am sure. We can have the same friendship and companionship that our parents did and if he wants I can tell of the stories that my mother told me so his father will live on. He'll know more about how much of a wonderful stallion he was, though he probably already knows that.

His cheek brushes mine and when he says he's never been a light before I let out a single good-humored laugh. "You are today." I say. He's been more light to me than the moon has ever been. Not once have I found any comfort or solace in her light. It took a soul as lost as my own to bring my back into the light and save me.

"I'm sorry to have made you cry."

Knox doesn't understand. I wasn't crying because of him. I was crying for him. My own self pity had been lost in the sea of my tears. I still had what he didn't, even if they were absent from my life. My father was still alive and well while his had passed and was nothing more than a memory. I touch my muzzle to Knox's cheek. "Sometimes crying helps." My head lowers and I shuffle closer then let my head rest on his side like I had before. "You let all the bad out when you cry and then all that's left is good." I wonder if he's ever truly cried or if he's kept his tears bottled up like his grief.

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