separate ways

Korath. Korath , like she was that stray all over again. Like she knew how she was nothing without him in her life. Like he was still just father. 

She froze. She'd never forgotten, so it was not a moment of realization. It was the mention aloud by someone other than herself. Her skirts swayed after she abruptly stopped. Her eyes closed before she turned to face him. Turned because even she couldn't make sense of the wave of emotion that overcame her in the single moment. Slowly she would turn, stopping only when she could truly acknowledge the overwhelming urge to crumble to pieces. 

Pulling in her lip, she attempted to look unaffected. That's not my name But instead what came out was the whispered rasp of her response. The words indeed of the child that wasn't a child any more and mourned that simple fact.