“Easy,” Leila repeated a little breathlessly, shaking her head but her eyes suddenly alight. “Who needs easy?” She didn’t need easy; ‘easy’ was as much of a stranger to her now as the rest of her family and the remnants of a former life. She imagined the same went for him and his life as Ephraim Belby. Perhaps for his own sake, she should try and forget Healer Belby as he had been, and take this as a blank slate. A fresh challenge - but a better one than most they faced.
“To - new starts, then,” she toasted him with a tentative tilt of the bottle in her hands to illustrate it, and her smile slipping past a bitten lip. She could not explain how grateful she was to him for having remembered her at all. He could have left her behind in this life, and gotten on with his own alone. (It would have been easy enough to do.)
“To - new starts, then,” she toasted him with a tentative tilt of the bottle in her hands to illustrate it, and her smile slipping past a bitten lip. She could not explain how grateful she was to him for having remembered her at all. He could have left her behind in this life, and gotten on with his own alone. (It would have been easy enough to do.)
