"Oh, I'm fine," she assured him with a wan smile and dismissive wave. Chloe hadn't come to bother others with her troubles but to forget them for a few hours. Instead, thanks to his music, everything had surfaced and become a bit clearer, as if someone had focused a lens of a camera in her brain. "No one's been moved by your music before? I find that very hard to believe."
Hazel eyes watched him curiously as he started to tidy up. A pity. She could have sat and listened to him for hours.
The children of her fields were as beloved by her as the child borne of her own flesh. Each one precious, each one connected to her through the green fields that surrounded them as they danced to the sweet melody the young one provided.