He goes to that faraway place she only knows through the things he has told her. The things he has chosen to tell her. If she did not have one of those places in her mind too she might have been hurt. Might not have understood. Booth knows about the girl with the shoes and the garbage bag. Sometimes he asks her, but most of the time he will just listen when she decides to tell him about her. On the nights she gets up to sit next to him they trade secrets.
Next to him on her couch she learns about him waiting for his father to return home from the local bar. In his dark kitchen he tells her about waiting for his targets to appear. She tells him about the bookmark remaining in her worn copy of The Lord of the Rings since the last Sunday afternoon with her mother. How she really was a bit too old to be read to. Jagged pieces from the past with sharp edges that still have the ability to cut.
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Next to him on her couch she learns about him waiting for his father to return home from the local bar. In his dark kitchen he tells her about waiting for his targets to appear. She tells him about the bookmark remaining in her worn copy of The Lord of the Rings since the last Sunday afternoon with her mother. How she really was a bit too old to be read to. Jagged pieces from the past with sharp edges that still have the ability to cut.
Excellent passage. Well done.
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