(Mira)
The compound looked different with music in it.
Not bad different. Just fuller than usual. Like the space had been waiting for exactly this kind of noise and was glad it had finally arrived. Tables set up along the side of the yard. Food everywhere. Kids running between the legs of brothers who pretended to be annoyed but weren't. The old ladies moving through it all like they owned every inch of it which they did in every way that mattered.
Claire had outdone herself. They all had.
I stood near the edge of the yard for a moment and just looked at it. Took it in the way you took in something you wanted to remember properly. The light was good. The music was the kind that made people move without thinking about it. Someone had set up decorations along the fence line and they caug
