[Not a surprising answer, almost relieving in some ways, and the tension in her shoulders eases a fraction of an inch. Hard enough to burn a body to ash knowing that person might be someone's mother, sister, friend; harder still to know just whose sister and friend that body might belong to.]
Let's keep it that way then.
[Never too young to bury a friend, but the soft curve of her heart still holds within it some concern. And it's because of that concern that she asks, though they're not truly "friends" yet in the deepest sense of the word:]
works for me!
Let's keep it that way then.
[Never too young to bury a friend, but the soft curve of her heart still holds within it some concern. And it's because of that concern that she asks, though they're not truly "friends" yet in the deepest sense of the word:]
You're not worried about catching the virus?