Embers
Drabble
Theme: #2: Love
Chapter Title: Bitter
Word Count: 122
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She feels it slipping through her fingers like the rain as she sits in the mud at the bottom of the shrine stairs, jii-chan trying to coax her back to the protective warmth of the shrine.
"Papa..." she sobs, watching as the big black limo sped off into the distance. Papa had dropped her off and had stayed as she played with the crows until she was put into the bath. When she had finished she had seen him shut the car door with a snap and he was gone and she was in the mud, crying as her last family member she loved disappeared.
Love was a bitter pill to swallow as jii-chan got her back on her feet.