announced she was going to the water and had gone. Andrew had followed at a slightly more considered pace, which meant he was in the water approximately ninety seconds after Amelia.

They spent two hours out there. I could see them from the porch, two shapes in the water, occasionally clearly audible from this distance when Amelia found something worth being loud about or Andrew said something that made Amelia argue with him. Elijah stood at the shoreline in the way he always did, close enough to be useful if needed, far enough to give them room. His shoes were off and his trousers were rolled and he looked completely at ease in the way I had come to love, the way of a person who has found the place they are supposed to be and settled into it without needing to announce anything.

I sat in the chair and I looked at the water and I thought about everything that had happened in the past months.

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