Unspoken Understanding

~Bea~

Grandma sat with Leo for a long time after the chess set conversation.

I watched from across the room. I did not interrupt. There was something happening between the two of them that did not need me in it — a quiet, careful getting-to-know-you that Grandma was conducting with the patience she brought to everything that mattered to her. Leo, for his part, had decided she was interesting and w