~Amelia~
I was in the garden when Caleb found me.
I'd been out there for about twenty minutes with a cup of tea that had gone cold, sitting on the stone bench near the east wall where the morning sun hit longest and nobody usually came by. My hands weren't doing the tingling thing. I was just sitting there being a person who wasn't worried about anything for five consecutive minutes.
Then Caleb came around the corner.
He wasn't rushing but he had that particular walk, the one that meant he had big news and was deciding how to frame it while he crossed the distance. I watched him come and I set the tea down on the bench beside me and waited.
"Lucy's here," he mentioned.
I looked at him.
"She brought her father."
"What do you mean she brought her father?" Confusion crossed my face.
