“I felt it shelter to speak to you.”

“I breathed him in, closing my mouth tight and inhaling the scent of him through my nose. I felt sheltered by him. Safe.”

“This place felt like home; not her home perhaps, but someone's home, accustomed to shelter and keep and befriend its master.”

“I quickly got used to being picked up by my mother, and taken to the air raid shelter near our home. Although frightening, this was a great adventure to me as a child, for in the shelter I played with the other children and we felt safe there as we were surrounded by grown-ups; although now the grown-ups were more worried than they had been in the past. There were greater feelings of anxiety and fear in the older people, which we children also felt, and it unsettled us all.”

“There is no shelter in you anywhere.”

“He’d protect me and shelter me forever. But I was beginning to realize that being sheltered came at a price.”