[He whirls past her like a typhoon. The sheer presence of him loud even when he was just walking.
But he stops on the picture she wishes he wouldn't. Snatching it up. She has tried to destroy it. She had broken it. Thrown it out the window. Cut her fingers up trying to smash it to bits.
Gilia flinched when he thrusts it at her, demanding to know who it is. If he was not so clearly wearing the pain of his soul outside of himself she might be angry he was demanding and digging into such painful things.
But there is clearly something else going on. So she shuts her eyes and finds anything else to look at. Just above his head, for instance and let's out a breath to answer him levely. ]
My elder brother. [ desperate to not speak of him she points at another portrait. A larger one showing three adults - parents it seems - and the six children around them where a younger version of her and said brother mingle between them. All in regal splender, powerful and austere and not a smile between them. ] There is all my family, if you must see it so.
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But he stops on the picture she wishes he wouldn't. Snatching it up. She has tried to destroy it. She had broken it. Thrown it out the window. Cut her fingers up trying to smash it to bits.
Gilia flinched when he thrusts it at her, demanding to know who it is. If he was not so clearly wearing the pain of his soul outside of himself she might be angry he was demanding and digging into such painful things.
But there is clearly something else going on. So she shuts her eyes and finds anything else to look at. Just above his head, for instance and let's out a breath to answer him levely. ]
My elder brother. [ desperate to not speak of him she points at another portrait. A larger one showing three adults - parents it seems - and the six children around them where a younger version of her and said brother mingle between them. All in regal splender, powerful and austere and not a smile between them. ] There is all my family, if you must see it so.