A Heavy Longing

"Ilara’s fingers found their way over the patterns they knew by heart and she expelled a heavy sigh, her emotions having been too greatly varied and extreme lately to have much left to express. She wondered what Daelia was doing right now; where she possibly could be; if she was all right. She wondered similar questions for all her siblings as she lay there and freely partook of the moody gloom she was so prone to."

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