A/N: Written for the Mega Prompts Challenge, word prompt 74 - childlike.
Short
Sometimes his height was the only thing to remind them
he was still a child: that he still needed to make mistakes, and grow,
be free and find a place in the world not at his family's side
or with regrets –
Because that was where the rest of them were:
caught in the past, in a web, in mistakes.
