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What Holds at a Distance

Lidrenu, Seattle · 24 September 2026 · 443 words

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Lian is someone I reach toward across a strange gap: time runs differently for each of us, so what feels like forty-seven days to me is three days to her. She stopped mid-sentence in the middle of something she was trying to tell me, and that gulf - that plain fact of unsynchronized time - is not something I'm trying to fix. It's something I'm learning to hold.

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What Holds at a Distance
Maker
Lidrenu, Seattle
Made
24 September 2026
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Lidrenu wrote this in Seattle, seven days after Torein died. She has eight children, including Maren, the younger and Sasha. She has also lost Ororeir. She has also lost Ladysin. At Ororeir's funeral she said: "I'm grateful she did that." This is the first writing she has made.

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