Scorpio

The quiet between you and an old friend is doing work that the talking never quite managed to do. When someone stops reaching back, the silence reveals which parts of the connection were real and which were just the momentum of habit. You find yourself remembering conversations differently now, noticing which moments felt like performance and which felt like actual meeting. The friendship that survives this kind of quiet is the friendship that was always there, running underneath the easier version you both got used to maintaining.