Hope (Karen/Frank)
Hope + Kastle
Hope is a girl with dark eyes and a soft spot for her taciturn father.
Hope makes Frank feel like someone has removed his heart and put it in fragile glass box outside his body, and any day now it might be crushed like it was before.
Hope touches his bruises and traces their edges while her mother looks on bemusedly, wondering if the child has ever seen her father without some kind of contusion on his face.
Hope was an accident that sent both of her parents into a spiral of fear and misgiving, Frank wondering if he was human enough to have a family again, and Karen wondering if she was strong enough.
Hope likes the way her parents’ heartbeats seem to sync up when she’s lying between them in bed, the thunderstorm outside nothing more than a dull roar.