Owen missed a note when Julianna came closer to him, he could feel her. Really feel her. Which was strange given that she wasn’t of the same worldly substance as he. Or, well, he didn’t think so at least. Owen wasn’t quite sure, but it was a bit unsettling feeling the form and shape of a woman supposedly long dead pressed against you.
He tried to distract himself from the discomforting thoughts by focusing on the personal question she had asked him. “My mother?” He asked uncertainly as he picked back up the melody that had briefly been disrupted.
“What’s there to say.” He wondered aloud as his fingers migrated nimbly by muscle memory over the keys. “That’s such an open ended question. I suppose I could tell you her profession?”
As he played, he kept the striking of the keys by his fingers gentle to keep the volume down partly so he could think and partly because he didn’t see the need to speak loudly over the piano. “The kids at school used to make fun of me because of it. What she did. My mother owned this shop where she sold...I don’t know really. An experience? She claimed to be a psychic medium channeling this obscure God called...Eurys? People would come to her for guidance in life and for... solutions ... to various ... maladies. Of the body. But also the spirit?”
Owen let his hands fall against the keys and discordant notes rang out. His sigh was really more a huff of frustration as he wasn’t entirely sure he knew how to characterize it to Julianna being somewhat of a skeptic himself. Less so recently. But still a skeptic.
“To this day she claims her work is legitimate. But I don’t know, there were a lot of people who called her a con and it was very embarrassing for me growing up. I was ashamed of her. You know? As a boy I remember seeing other kid’s parents looking well groomed in nice clothing and driving nice cars. Looking so...normal. Those were never the type of people who came to my mother for her...services. The people who came to her were the lowly sort, I guess. And I remember always thinking I would rather get in those sleek cars that smelled like new leather than to walk to her shop after school and keep coals lit for the insensor.”
He shrugged and rubbed his palms over his thighs before turning to look at how Julianna would receive the information. “So. That’s my mother. Proud, stubborn, and ...witchy.”
He tried to distract himself from the discomforting thoughts by focusing on the personal question she had asked him. “My mother?” He asked uncertainly as he picked back up the melody that had briefly been disrupted.
“What’s there to say.” He wondered aloud as his fingers migrated nimbly by muscle memory over the keys. “That’s such an open ended question. I suppose I could tell you her profession?”
As he played, he kept the striking of the keys by his fingers gentle to keep the volume down partly so he could think and partly because he didn’t see the need to speak loudly over the piano. “The kids at school used to make fun of me because of it. What she did. My mother owned this shop where she sold...I don’t know really. An experience? She claimed to be a psychic medium channeling this obscure God called...Eurys? People would come to her for guidance in life and for... solutions ... to various ... maladies. Of the body. But also the spirit?”
Owen let his hands fall against the keys and discordant notes rang out. His sigh was really more a huff of frustration as he wasn’t entirely sure he knew how to characterize it to Julianna being somewhat of a skeptic himself. Less so recently. But still a skeptic.
“To this day she claims her work is legitimate. But I don’t know, there were a lot of people who called her a con and it was very embarrassing for me growing up. I was ashamed of her. You know? As a boy I remember seeing other kid’s parents looking well groomed in nice clothing and driving nice cars. Looking so...normal. Those were never the type of people who came to my mother for her...services. The people who came to her were the lowly sort, I guess. And I remember always thinking I would rather get in those sleek cars that smelled like new leather than to walk to her shop after school and keep coals lit for the insensor.”
He shrugged and rubbed his palms over his thighs before turning to look at how Julianna would receive the information. “So. That’s my mother. Proud, stubborn, and ...witchy.”
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