The Unspoken Resemblance

~Raina~

The dinner wound down the way good evenings do, slowly, reluctantly, in stages. Guests collected their coats in ones and twos, exchanging the last conversations of the night with the particular warmth that came from wine and candlelight and the specific kind of room that made people feel like they had spent their evening somewhere that mattered.

Leo had fallen asleep in the side room. He h