“We are working on it Mom - might not go anywhere?” she shrugged her shoulders even if she knew it would go somewhere. They just needed to push past the bad stuff to get to the good stuff.
With a sigh she took her mothers arm and matched her smile “Yes - we will go there first.” she liked having her and did not realize how much she missed her until not.
Claire had closed herself off from the world when her mother died and now she was slowly letting the world back in.