☾ @achesun
CALLIOPE’S HAIR IS THICK and , at the moment , difficult to manage with the way it lays plaited down her back . her mother sits behind her , FINGERS GENTLE even as they tug the strands from the knotted braid , and tries her best to disentangle it . ❝ hold still , calliope . i’m almost finished . ❞ though her request comes stern , nearly scolding , her palm presses over callie’s shoulder soothingly . she cannot leech her daughter’s pain , but she can surely touch her sweetly to make up for it . ❝ your father REALLY loves doing this for you , but i just don’t think he wants to face that he sucks at it . ❞











