10-29-2018, 10:32 PM
[align=center][div style="width: 51%; text-align: justify; font-size: 10pt; letter-spacing: -1px; font-family: georgia;"]Sometimes she forgot how full these types of meals would be compared to what they used to get. Really, they couldn't even be considered that--they expected them to run on table scraps half the time. Suddenly realizing this, she quietly cursed herself, sheepishly watching him eat. She feared just how long ago his last decent meal had been. Surely he hadn't just recently escaped?
Cosette doesn't have long to dwell on it, though, attention suddenly focused back on her brother as he spoke. Her gleeful expression sours slightly, averting her eyes as she wondered how to respond. Lately things hadn't been so well. Her emotions were all over the place, a rocky road with plenty of bumps. She was beginning to fear herself, afraid of what she had become, or was becoming. Maybe she had always been like this.
She swallows around the lump she didn't notice had formed in her throat, trying to force a smile back onto her face. "I've been well enough. Better than I used to be, of course." she exhales heavily after finishing the last part, trying not to linger on thoughts of those times. The present was the best, and she intended to look forward instead of backwards.
"But tell me, brother, where have you been? What.." she stops, unsure if they should speak about it or not, obvious by the way her body tensed. "What happened after you were..taken away?" she instantly regrets asking it. Her eyes glaze over with sadness just thinking about it, though she's sure his own pain at reminiscing is worse.
Cosette doesn't have long to dwell on it, though, attention suddenly focused back on her brother as he spoke. Her gleeful expression sours slightly, averting her eyes as she wondered how to respond. Lately things hadn't been so well. Her emotions were all over the place, a rocky road with plenty of bumps. She was beginning to fear herself, afraid of what she had become, or was becoming. Maybe she had always been like this.
She swallows around the lump she didn't notice had formed in her throat, trying to force a smile back onto her face. "I've been well enough. Better than I used to be, of course." she exhales heavily after finishing the last part, trying not to linger on thoughts of those times. The present was the best, and she intended to look forward instead of backwards.
"But tell me, brother, where have you been? What.." she stops, unsure if they should speak about it or not, obvious by the way her body tensed. "What happened after you were..taken away?" she instantly regrets asking it. Her eyes glaze over with sadness just thinking about it, though she's sure his own pain at reminiscing is worse.