"Daddy?"
"Yes Kedzie?"
"Tell me a story about Mommy." She's always asking me, to tell her about Eliza. I don't know what to tell her sometimes. I can't tell her how I saw her mother. She's only three, she doesn't understand things like love. Well, she dose, but it's not the same kind of love. She loves her Seto, she loves me, she loves her blue eyes stuffie. But she cant understand adult love.
"Well…" She looks like Eliza. She has my hair, black and very thin. And she has Seto's blue eyes. I'm not sure how she did, she just did. I'm not complaining. I'm glad. Her eyes looked like his did when he was this age. I never saw him at three, but I'm sure this is how he looked. She really dose look like Eliza. She has a sweet voice like her mother, like a beautiful song. My soul dances every time I hear it. She really dose make me so happy. "Your mother loved you very much. She was a brave woman. She wasn't afraid of anything, not even death. She loved with all of her heart, and never regretted. She was a genius, the smartest person I've ever met. And she is very sorry that she can't be here for you today, that she left you alone."
"But she didn't leave me alone, she left me with you, and my Seto."
"Yes, she did." Eliza. I will never marry again. Kedzie is my life now. She is the only woman that I love. She is the only woman for me. I get lonely sometimes. I miss the touch of a woman, I miss the company, I miss the sex. But I can't get married. I can't date. I would expect a woman to be Eliza, I would expect her to be… more than she is. And that would not be fair to her. So I'll keep it this way. I laid her down in her small bed, she sleeps so gently, so wonderfully. Every woman that I have loved, while she sleeps, looks so lovely. They look so, beautiful. I love women. I love what they do for me, how they make me feel. Weather they are friends, or lovers, or daughters. With out them, I would be nothing.
"What did you tell her?"
"What we always do. I wish that we had something more to say to her."
"Me too." She calls him 'my Seto.' I love it when she doses that. He calls her, 'my Kedzie.' They really are the best thing for each other. He is her best friend. He's the happiest he ever has been when he is with her. He will throw her up in the air, she will laugh. He laughs almost as much as she dose. It sounds so weird to hear him laugh that hard. And its not an evil laugh, it's just a laugh. I love it. He is always so, wonderful around her. He looked in her room. "Is she still running her fever?"
"Its gotten better."
"Maybe we should call the doctor?"
"No, it will be ok. Its just a fever."
"But I think that we should-"
"Seto, she'll be fine." He looked in on her again. Crap, he's worse than I am.