“Can play you lullabyes, if’n you’d like.” She offered, careful to wash down the cake first and not talk with food in her mouth. “I know how to play real quiet.” She followed that up with another but of cake that made her smile so big it came with its own hum of brightness. It’d carry all the way through that cake too, well past leaving the diner, and right up until the point Sadie found herself a sleeping spot and curled up. Even then it’d stay the tiniest little thing.
This was a good place. It was just that feeling, the thing that let her fall asleep without an ear bent to the room. It let her rest in a way she hadn’t in ages. It was soft and warm and it..this place...this town…
It was something else was what. It was a place where maybe, just maybe, trying on the title of home wasn’t sounding like the worst idea she’d ever had.