when: 10 july, 1979
where: driveway, the robards family home
who: @clementinerobards
Gawain didn’t like feeling like a coward. He didn’t like feeling like a failure. But he felt both those things when faced with his sister, and over them both, he felt the hard grip of fear that he’d been trying to ignore since he’d heard the news.
He’d heard the news. What kind of person heard the news about his siblings’ torture and his mother’s death?
He knew he had to bring himself to say something to Clem. But everything felt like too little, or too much. So he stayed quiet, all but looking at his feet in silent shame.