Quite the Handful

thebrokenmarionette:

                 ”But Mummy said that it’s rude to call adults
                  by their first name and that I’m not allowed to
                  do it because I have to be good.”

        Her little nose crinkled with concentration as she considered
        how it was that a world could be insane. Insane was a type of
        sick in the head — she had been taught that much — but what
        Veata didn’t understand was how a world could be considered
        insane with no head to speak of. She reached for Fallon’s
        hand as they continued to walk and tugged lightly even though
        she already had the woman’s attention.

                 ”How come the world’s insane now?”

Fallon mulled over the young girl’s words after she spoke them, and met the young girl with a small shrug, “Well okay… You can call me Miss if you want, but just know that you don’t have to,”

The two were silent for another moment before the young girl’s hand curled around her own. The question caught her off guard, Fallon bit down on chapped lips before replying, “Well… The sickness that the walkers get… It kind of went out of control really, didn’t it? And now the world’s insane because when people get sick, they stop doing their jobs and living their lives and the world stops working… Y'know what I mean?”

(via thebrokenmarionette-archive)