Neither of her parents knew that Siobhan had caught them that day, she never let on, but Al's relationship with his daughter changed quite markedly after that. She was a lot more distant with him, less tactile, less physically affectionate. He had noticed this evolution and regretted it deeply; but he dismissed it as a consequence of her adolescence. She wasn't a little girl anymore, something he would notice more and more in the coming years, and he assumed this was just a natural process; she was just growing up and away from him.
Soon, the two of them would be much closer than they could ever imagine.
They had walked about half a mile, through fairly treacherous terrain, when they reached an old stone wall, circling a large field, on the edge of a large forest. Ancient oak trees tower
