[ He dips his own pastry into his hot chocolate, then, and enough sugar falls into it that the bitterness is probably well and truly offset already. Once he's taken a bite and paused to savour it, he smiles. ]
I've not missed the little things from the old country, per se. [ The old country. Countries. There's a few of them. It's complicated. But that's what his grandmothers call it, and it's no less complicated for them. 'Home' doesn't sound right anymore. Home is here, with all its heat and expanse and newness and wendigos. ] But I've wished I could share them with the two of you. It's- difficult, a little, when all the things you have to give belong to a whole other world.
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[ He dips his own pastry into his hot chocolate, then, and enough sugar falls into it that the bitterness is probably well and truly offset already. Once he's taken a bite and paused to savour it, he smiles. ]
I've not missed the little things from the old country, per se. [ The old country. Countries. There's a few of them. It's complicated. But that's what his grandmothers call it, and it's no less complicated for them. 'Home' doesn't sound right anymore. Home is here, with all its heat and expanse and newness and wendigos. ] But I've wished I could share them with the two of you. It's- difficult, a little, when all the things you have to give belong to a whole other world.