Northern stood, absent-minded and absorbed in the moment that seemed to be playing out in slow motion.
The woman's face was paler than a couple of moments ago. She tried to reach him from her position with her hands trembling.
Not knowing what the heavy ache that overwhelmed his heart was, Northern slowly went down, bending to his knees.
He took the woman's hand and helped her to his cheek, his eyes barely holding on as he stared down at her.
Several touches could be seen running around the compound of this particular building, but neither of them seemed concerned about it.
To Northern, who was seeing the woman that had brought him to this life for the first time, he had thought it wouldn't change a thing to see her.
But he was wrong; it changed everything. And the most difficult thing was he didn't even know how to navigate through the emotions.
