Something I Can Never Have
I still recall the taste of my tears.
Echoing your voice just like the ringing in my ears.
My favorite dreams of you still wash ashore.
Scraping through my head 'till I don't want to sleep anymore.
Walter, Integral, Arthur - Mangaverse
The mother was dying, and Arthur wanted nothing to do with
the babe for the next week or so as he stayed by his wife's side. There was
internal bleeding to the womb and cancer to the brain, but she was a fighter
and survived to the bitter end.
Walter would never tell these stories to the newborn in his arms. Instead, he
smiled and caressed her, fingertips shaping her features and outlining her
perfect body. Were he to name her, he'd like to name her Elizabeth or Anna,
some pretty English name of royal descent.
But Walter wouldn't name her. Arthur would end up giving her some long-winded
masculine name signifying how much he detested her gender. But in his heart,
the old butler would still call her by Anna.