Yeh

"If I just lay here, for the rest of my life, would that be so terrible?"

"You'd get et."

"Yeh."

Bren was sitting in the meadow, chewing on an apple. He looked down at Valla, laying in the grass nearby.

"You'd die." He prompted.

"Yeh. But I'd get to lay here for the rest of my life."

"Mm." He mumbled around a piece of apple.

Silence hung in the warm summer air. The sun played briefly behind a thin cloud, dimming only slightly. Giving the whole world a pleasant swelling of brightness as it returned.

Bren finished his apple.

He stared at the core intently.

"I'd be sad." He said at last.

One of Valla's eyes slowly worked its way open, to look at Bren.

"What?"

"If you got et. I'd be sad." He casually tossed his apple core into the tree line. He leaned back, resting on his palms.

"Oh."

"Yeh."

The warm summer silence returned.

Bren lay back in the grass. It was nice. He closed his eyes, and felt the sun playing across his face pleasantly.

He felt Valla's hand snake into his. It was... soft.

"Maybe not the rest of my life then. Just for a bit, huh Bren?"

Bren's stomach felt like a hive of bees dancing around a flower. He smiled, keeping his eyes closed.

"Yeh."