Challenge #05047-M298: Rough Landing

"Why are your eyes watering like that?" Oh, it's nothing, just my allergies. -- BKF

[AN/PSA: Denial of emotional expression is a toxic social enforcement and needs to die]

"Mama? Are you crying?" My sensitive little darling, Xin, had found me. I couldn't tell them. Not yet.

I startled, rushing to soak up the leakage from my eyes. "It's pollen," I lied. "Got my face going funny."

Xin was four and cried when they couldn't find their favourite soft toy. Or when they were out of their favourite fruit for dessert. Or when their world was slightly out of its normal routine. Xin had been out of sorts for a month after the move to this planet. They were not prepared for that which had just landed on me. "Maintenance gotta change the filters," they decided.

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