Outlander S07 M4b ✓ (ORIGINAL)

This is the cruelty we did not anticipate, I thought. We survived Culloden. We survived the stones, the witch trials, the ocean. But we did not survive the quiet horror of our own child carrying a flag against us.

I tied off the suture. “He will be confused. There is a difference.” outlander s07 m4b

(A slow, deliberate drumbeat fades in. The sound of wind across a Scottish moor. Then, a woman’s voice, weary but resonant—Claire’s.) This is the cruelty we did not anticipate, I thought

“He will come to find you,” I said.

I took his hand—the one that had held the dirk, the plow, the pen that wrote love letters to me across two centuries. But we did not survive the quiet horror

He was thrown from his horse—a tangle of red wool and pale, shocked fury. A Continental soldier raised his bayonet. Time did not slow. It stopped.

Jamie’s throat worked. He could have said a thousand things. I am your father. I loved your mother. I have carried your name in my bones like a splinter of glass.