A Long-Overdue Update
For the three past months, I have been posting inconsistently. Life happens. While Astrid nearly being murdered by her cousin and moving in with me was a major factor, it deserved more than two sentences. She was brutally attacked on several occasions, one of them nearly causing her death. I have been taking care of her as she recovers, which is a long and difficult process. But that's... not all. It was the Running more than anything. I can't explain how it happened. How I was drawn to it. How it was drawn to me. It started one night in late January. The Running and I were keeping our distance from each other after the incident. I had just gotten out of the shower. Dried off. Ready for bed. I slipped beneath the covers. And the Running was standing in the doorway. Merely watching. Observing. I lay in my bed, facing the wall. And the Running, curious, came to me. Slipped under the covers with me. Maybe it liked my body heat. Maybe it needed something that I also needed. It cud
