Fight To Keep It Down

He was quiet as he stood there beside her, his attention on the ground, overgrown by now to the point no one would ever know his tiny children were laid here. His heart ached and clenched and he did with his jaw. The tension and the sorrow that built up almost too much to live with. After so much strife, after fighting so hard for them, to have just… nothing but a terribly broken heart. Indigo knew that Duchess was hurting as much as he was, but he didn’t have the strength to list her and himself at the same time. They suffered in silence, neither moving for a long moment.

The silence stretched on, a long quiet moment for remembrance and mourning for what should have been. How different would his outlook be if they had survived, if they were thriving and growing at their feet instead of dead and buried. Duchess finally shifted, silently seeking his presence, but not asserting her affection. Indigo moved almost without thinking and sank to the earth beside her.

He had held them back for a long time, but tears finally poured from his eyes as they settled back on the earth. He wanted them back so bad. There was no changing the past, there was no resurrection for them. Indigo lamented the cruelty of life, forgetting any transgression the woman beside him committed for along moment. He set it aside to mourn their loss together.


Indigo Arcturus Fatalis