Nuvali was a place Alice was very familiar with, but she never thought she’d be there for work and business. “Is it?” she asked herself in her head. “Is the daughter of your dead friend still called work?”
Aurora leaned against the railing beneath the darkening sky as she watched Nuvali’s koi fishes swim and twirl in the water. Like a messy cluster, the fishes would come rushing towards the edge of the railings when one of the crowds would throw bread onto them. The water would splash and gently hit the faces of those looking too closely.
Aurora giggled at the sight. Then simply stared.
“We used to come here when I was little,” she said.
“Your father never told me he liked fishes…” Alice replied.
“I liked the fishes. He only came here because of me. He was like that, you know?”
Aden and Alice thought they should at least have her speak like this for a while. In si
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