Lake Lewisia #1068

Family visits were always a bit embarrassing: showing off one’s awkward first attempts at homemaking, trying to explain away the shortcomings of whatever home could be afforded by the young and newly independent, caught between the child’s need for approval and the adult’s need for independence. She showed her family around the little planet, highlighting its charming geological formations even as she tried to brush aside yet another garbage patch that had somehow escaped her frantic cleaning efforts. “Well, it’s a bit of a fixer-upper,” her primary manifesting element commented, “but it’s good for a young deity to have a project.”

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