Was. So the image before them really was of someone dead. Someone who had been very important to Delita. But what is her spirit doing here? Was it merely an illusion?
Illusion or not, the effect was the same. Garnet's thoughts turned to her own family... her face fell.
"I'm sorry. I understand how you feel. My parents..." she paused. The father whose face she did not even remember, and the father who had read her bed-time stories. The mother who gave birth to her, and the mother who had raised her, taken her in as her own flesh and blood. "They are also gone. I never had any brothers or sisters... But we are not so different, really."
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Date: 2009-11-22 05:41 am (UTC)Illusion or not, the effect was the same. Garnet's thoughts turned to her own family... her face fell.
"I'm sorry. I understand how you feel. My parents..." she paused. The father whose face she did not even remember, and the father who had read her bed-time stories. The mother who gave birth to her, and the mother who had raised her, taken her in as her own flesh and blood. "They are also gone. I never had any brothers or sisters... But we are not so different, really."