Ben holds her gaze, his beard twitching with the smile underneath it.
"By my blood freely given, I am your father."
It should feel momentous, one sentence breaking so many of the rules and traditions he has spent his life holding sacred. Abandoning of the the basic precepts - that of non attachment - for a girl he hasn't known 24 hours.
But instead it feels quiet and truthful. And he never thought much of that particular precept anyway.
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Date: 2020-10-01 07:45 am (UTC)"By my blood freely given, I am your father."
It should feel momentous, one sentence breaking so many of the rules and traditions he has spent his life holding sacred. Abandoning of the the basic precepts - that of non attachment - for a girl he hasn't known 24 hours.
But instead it feels quiet and truthful. And he never thought much of that particular precept anyway.