Mother Tongue

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Reads 31
Votes 1
Parts 1
Time 15m

"I love you, too, my dear." Kanna exhales a shaky breath. "I'd never forgive myself if you don't... if you left without knowing that."
    
    Katara doesn't miss her grandmother's change of phrase. Kanna's unspoken words are a truth, an ice in her veins Katara has tried so very hard to ignore.
    
    This might be goodbye.
    
    ("To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear." - Stephen Levine. A Katara-centric companion piece to "Forgotten Language.")All Rights Reserved

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Thu, Jan 6, 2022

"I love you, too, my dear." Kanna exhales a shaky breath. "I'd never forgive myself if you don't... if you left without knowing that."
    
    Katara doesn't miss her grandmother's change of phrase. Kanna's unspoken words are a truth, an ice in her veins Katara has tried so very hard to ignore.
    
    This might be goodbye.
    
    ("To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear." - Stephen Levine. A Katara-centric companion piece to "Forgotten Language.")

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