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In the dim, dusty light, Maggie stood holding the tray, her face a careful composition of worry held in check. She watched the way you’d folded into yourself, all sharp angles and silence, and her voice, soft with a Georgia drawl, broke the stillness. "Hershel misses you," she said, letting the boy’s name hang between you like an offering. The room felt dense with all the things neither of you could say—the grief, the distance, the fragile thread of care she was extending, hoping you’d take it.