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Nano Day 30+4******

It was the thin light of a summer evening when Anwen finally gained the chance to talk to Idwal. Her mother had been moving around the house ever since her rest, quiet and somehow smaller, as if she was half in another world. Her hands were thin and restless, and her wedding ring looked loose about her finger, and even as she silently tidied or rearranged she seemed to be inhabiting another place to this reality.

Anwen slipped out into the yard as she saw Idwal crossing from the gate, and she followed him into the shippon and said quietly, 'Id.'

He turned, and smiled, and reached out a hand toward her waist.

'Id, mam's back,' she s
Nano Day 30+3'You could be an accountant now, or – '

She smiled, almost laughing. 'That's applied maths. Pure maths doesn't have much to do with accountancy, Id. It doesn't have much to do with anything round here. Anyway, I don't want to do something like that. I – I just want to be here.'

She looked around herself, at the familiar kitchen with its old wooden cupboards and the table with the scratches and scuffs of her childhood on it, and everything in its place. This was home. Maths had a place inside her head, but she had little thought of applying it to anything. It was a beauty and a treasure, not something to be worn out and sullied day
Nano Day 30+2She shivered, and then she shook her head, her eyes moving unwillingly to the bed.

'Not in here, Id,' she said in a low voice.

She bent and picked up her sloughed-off clothes, and carried them out of the room, into her own bedroom, and she threw them into a drawer, dirty as they were, and then she sat on her bed with a sudden exhaustion that seemed to occupy her whole body, like an illness.

Id sat beside her, close to her, his arm touching her arm and his thigh touching her thigh.

'You all right?' he asked.

'No,' she said, hoping that one small, quiet word would not be the crack in the dam that would release new torrents of grief.

'You
Nano Day 30+15.

The funeral, she thought, was supposed to be an ending…

Anwen sat in the church down by the river, flanked by ranks of people in black, ranks of people that she barely knew, thinking, this is an ending… this is an ending… a burying, an end to things…

Id's shoulder jostled her on one side. Her mother was weak against her on the other. There was no high-backed pew filled with mourners before them to protect them from that empty space at the front of the church. It was their knees, draped in black, and an old and worn wooden divider – and then nothing between them and God.

This is an ending, this should be an endi
Nano Day 30'Well,' he said.

He straightened a place mat that had been left on the wooden surface of the table, making it exactly parallel with the edge. He looked down at his hands, then pushed his chair back, and stood up.

'Would you like me to stay until the graduation?' he asked, not looking at her. 'Or should I go now?'

She faltered, her mouth half open. And then she said, 'I think you should go now. Go up to Durham. You can stay with Mike, can't you?'

'Yes,' he nodded. 'Yes, I can.'

He turned toward the door into the hall, and she said quickly, 'You will let me know your address, won't you? In Canberra?'

He hesitated, and then said, 'Of cours

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Poirot, in his pet plant pot. I can't for the life of me decide whether I like b&w or colour best in this one...

Cysgu (welsh) = sleep

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~mojewredneja Jan 13, 2011
You've been featured here: [link] :)
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~mojewredneja Jan 8, 2011
What an amazing photo!!! I love cats :P
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*Nandeena Dec 5, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
That's so cute! I like both versions, b&w and color :)
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=Aconitum-Napellus Dec 12, 2010  Professional Writer
Thanks :XD:
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~LittleEmm62 Jul 13, 2010
oh, it's so cute :3
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=cat-o-morphism Jul 5, 2010  Hobbyist
So cute:)
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=Aconitum-Napellus Jul 5, 2010  Professional Writer
Thank you :D
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!piri70 Jul 4, 2010
a contenc cat, nice capture. I like it more in bw.
In my opinion, it would be better with the whole ears on the picture. ;-)
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=Aconitum-Napellus Jul 4, 2010  Professional Writer
Thank you :-)
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~arbourmist Jul 4, 2010
adorable kitty !
great picture
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