"Things change, that is something we can not stop from happening. Alice is growing up and needs to move for herself and the family she is starting. Just like your older sister, Maggie. She just has to move further away. You have Anne and Will and me. You are not alone, Bram. Please be strong for your sister, she needs you to be."

Elijah glanced at Will, he didn't want to scold him again as Will was trying to help Bram understand, he was just a bit rougher like his father. "It's hard to be strong when someone is young. You have always been strong, haven't you, Will?" He smiled slightly at him as Will had been a serious child and he had worried thathe hadn't had a chance to be a boy because of their family's situation.