Control

Tonight, Eliot ran all the way back from Vios, but as she approached the house, she tripped and fell, her head making an audible thump on the sidewalk. While she is normally very brave about falls and bumps, this hurt, and frightened her, and she panicked herself into deep, heaving sobs. I held her. Between the sobs she managed to say, "I'm trying.. to cheer myself up!", got her thumb in her mouth, sobbing around it, and within a minute had wreaked her incredible control to bring herself back to silence. She is a girl of steel.