[ baby. weh. thankfully taair is calm in the face of it - and observant, too, observant enough to watch him physically prickle. gentle, but steady, in return. ]

I know you do. [ though the latter point kind of brings it back to the reason for a chronicle, anyway. ] Right now, the loss of Charlie and the general is fresh in our minds. But if people act as though it never happened today, a few days later.. how might they act in a few weeks? In eight weeks, when all is said and done?

Time sands the edges of memory. I want to write to ensure that never happens.