I do. [Now it's her turn to look away, focusing on the ocean and land beneath them as she steels herself. Talking about him in her world was perhaps a little too easy, because everyone knew who he was there. To others who never met him... The topic had never really come up.

It didn't stop her from feeling any less apologetic and responsible on his behalf.]

My brother is the only family I have ever had. There was my grandfather who took us in, but in reality it's just the two of us.