ka_verse Prompt 22, 'Joy'
Prompt 22, Joy
"Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body." -Elizabeth Stone
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She crushes her remaining daughters in her arms, and Naomi clings to them as her knees give out under devastating the weight of her acceptance; they sink en mass to the rough ground of the valley floor.
The camp bustles with excitement around them - the war is over to everyone else and the infectious excitement around them makes Naomi's gut clench hard and then flare in protest as she see watches everyone around them act as if nothing is wrong when everything is - - -
Sara sniffs despondently on her left side, old enough to recognize her mother is hurting but young enough to not understand why. Naomi presses a shaky kiss to her youngest daughter's brow, trying to find the words to explain - - - she who has always been so at ease with words in front of a courtroom, and she can't find any of them now to explain to an eight year old about - - -
A loud chorus of cheers in a garbled combination of English and their native language rings skyward from a huddle of Hork Bajr behind her family - - - and Naomi has never in her life hated someone for their happiness like she does in this moment.