Title: pressed the shells into our bones
Author:
cloudytea Characters: Cindy(/Lennon) -implied-
Rating: PG
Spoilers/Warnings: None.
Summary: She gets Christmas cards in June. For
lost_in_108's prompt Travel. Yeah, no one reads this pairing, but whatever. :3
She is ten and the ocean is a thing of illustrious temptation -- She's nearly swallowed by its alluring currents and remembers her father’s laughs, the dark brow they shared creasing like always.
A week later, he’s gone and her mother whispers good riddance over and over like a broken record. She gets Christmas cards in June and birthdays are a thing of the past.
Where are you? Twenty years later, a man with sad eyes (the ocean’s in his eyes) asks her this, raking fingers through her curls as they watch the surf wash over the golden sand.
Cindy Chandler knows a thing or two about drowning.