fossil
They make it to their destination slowly.
Very slowly.
Part of the problem is that she’s travelling with the slowest people she’s ever met. Every single one of them is content with taking weeks to get from one place to the other, because they all remember a time it always did. It’s a feeling she remembers from when she was younger and her dad was away and her mom couldn’t quite handle two kids at home while she wasn’t, and Nile and Cass would be sent to Grandma’s. Grandma Freeman was actually her dad’s grandma, and she was the oldest woman Nile had ever met—old enough to give Andy a run for her money, she’d say—and Nile had spent all her summers there bewildered by how content she was to sit down and knit and wait for the water to boil.
