For Claire

[1stwitness]

Being around people isn't a bad thing. But for Ichabod, from time to time, it starts to get wearing, and that's when he takes himself off into the nearest patch of wilderness for a while.

The nearest patch of wilderness today happens to be the Milliways woods.

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[an_outlander]

It's still hard to believe the war is over, but it's days like today that it really hits her all over again.

Her plans are to spend the day gathering some local herbs while Frank occupies himself with his family history and dusty documents, but she's in no hurry; the university professor in her husband shows itself when he's involved in any form of research, be it for work or simple, personal interest.

So she's enjoying the landscape, the quiet, the still-wonderful ability to not have to measure out her days in patients and minutes and lives kept alive or--in the worst cases--mercifully ended.

She doesn't even notice she's not alone, so wonderful and still new-again is the ability to simply be at peace. With other countries, with nature--with yourself.