She does miss him. Painfully so, and being perceived makes the knife twist despite the feeling being expected. Natural. Obvious. Vex inhales sharply, and she nods.
"I know it will get easier with time. It always does," she says. Even the painful loss of their mother lost some of the terrible pain over the years, because life went on. They focused on surviving, on keeping one another afloat. Now Vax has his own life, something separate from her--and she has her life, separate from him.
It's a strange concept.
"I just think I thought I'd... feel less sad about it, I suppose." Sad, to a certain extent, but not like this. A tug at her heart that threatens to make her eyes burn if she dwells on the depth of it too much.
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"I know it will get easier with time. It always does," she says. Even the painful loss of their mother lost some of the terrible pain over the years, because life went on. They focused on surviving, on keeping one another afloat. Now Vax has his own life, something separate from her--and she has her life, separate from him.
It's a strange concept.
"I just think I thought I'd... feel less sad about it, I suppose." Sad, to a certain extent, but not like this. A tug at her heart that threatens to make her eyes burn if she dwells on the depth of it too much.