"Most beloved things do," he says, knowing Caleb can feel the affection there as much as he hears it in his voice, the bone-deep contentment of being within the place that helped shape him into the person he was today. Black Elm might have been nothing more than a house to his parents, a burden and a curse they'd have happily rid themselves of had his grandfather not added a proviso to his will to prevent it, but to Darlington, it was everything.
"And," he adds, "like most aged and ailing relatives, it needs a lot of assistance to keep on going." He thinks over the ongoing projects, the things he and Alex have started and the ones not yet begun. "There's some fuses to test, and probably replace, down in the basement," he says. "They're for lights all over the house, which is why I've been waiting."
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Date: 2020-12-04 02:58 am (UTC)"And," he adds, "like most aged and ailing relatives, it needs a lot of assistance to keep on going." He thinks over the ongoing projects, the things he and Alex have started and the ones not yet begun. "There's some fuses to test, and probably replace, down in the basement," he says. "They're for lights all over the house, which is why I've been waiting."