Reverie

The pain I felt was suddenly overwhelming as I missed them.

Aviari came back to me in flashes of him taunting me mercilessly.  A cocky smile and a jokingly rotten nature that often drove him to hold toys above my head. Or hide my favorite doll.

But then there was Baila Lae. And I saw her face in a sudden flash. Haloed by light from the window behind her as she laughingly swatted at her brother and told him to be nice to their baby sister.

As if I were something precious to be guarded.

Then I thought of dancing blue eyes and wild dark waves and knew that I was remembering Killian who was tall in his own right but nowhere near like Aviari. He looked much more human.

Normal. Almost.

But I thought he was surely the most handsome young man in the world. Because he was my hero.

And as he’d left, he’d hugged me tight and whispered to me that he’d always come back and he’d always be watc