“Do you feel that?” Melvin asked standing over his wife in the doorway as she was sitting on the small steps outside.

Phaedra closed her eyes and she felt happiness run through her. Like it was light and joy all bundled up just for her. It sat deep within her and traveled slowly and warmly throughout her body, kissing fingertips with the gentlest of touches. It was a beautiful feeling, one she hadn’t felt in a very long time. “Yea I feel it.” she smiled out into the wild. She tilted her head back and looked up at Melvin, “They’re coming together.”

　

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“Tina do you believe in fairy tales?”

“When I was a kid my teacher use to read to us, and I wanted to believe in them, I really did, but I couldn’t. I couldn’t see how such happiness could exist for some people and in my home it was like living in a war zone.” Tina felt sad at the thought and continued on. “My mother was heartless and my father seemed oddly broken but functional. It was always just me and Eddie I don’t think I ever really wanted to be in one.”

“You sound so much like your mother it’s amazing. She’d probably say the same thing. But in all actuality fairy tales are true. They are merely taken out of context and misconstrued for the entertainment of mortal children.” Kit saw how Tina looked out the window as though someone had told her a deep secret. She sat trying to process what Kit had just told her.

“So shit like Cinderella is true?”

“Exactly and no.” Kit smiled as Tina rolled her eyes. “Tina those stories happened so many lifetimes ago they’ve long since been taken to so many endings. The real story is a lot less romantic and the ending isn’t quite the same. But my point is there are so many things out there that you have to learn to take on faith. When you were a child they told you that fairy tales weren’t real, and yet they created the saying ‘Fairy tales do come true’. you have to learn how to look beyond what you see and hear and find what the truth is.” Kit said and saw how Tina’s face was so concentrated on her and her words.