"Just checking. If she was awake, it'd be obvious." Ornella is too young to be embarrassed by a grandfather. Her enthusiasm for being sung to is heartening. "I'd like to have her closer to the others, if she's this deeply asleep. These old bones won't like me picking her up, though. How are yours?"
There may be other people out napping, but they aren't his quite young granddaughter off by herself. If this was her family's yard, or a friend's, he wouldn't be too concerned. Sky was raised in an age of free-range children and at around Nel's age he'd fractured a collarbone falling off something miles from home, but this isn't that age anymore.
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"Just checking. If she was awake, it'd be obvious." Ornella is too young to be embarrassed by a grandfather. Her enthusiasm for being sung to is heartening. "I'd like to have her closer to the others, if she's this deeply asleep. These old bones won't like me picking her up, though. How are yours?"
There may be other people out napping, but they aren't his quite young granddaughter off by herself. If this was her family's yard, or a friend's, he wouldn't be too concerned. Sky was raised in an age of free-range children and at around Nel's age he'd fractured a collarbone falling off something miles from home, but this isn't that age anymore.