Mikal seems happy enough with being able to stay close to his mother.

If you stay close to my mother, you may go where she goes.

But he wanted to stay close to his mother, who had a leg amputated.

She had talked simply and without words, feeling close to her mother.

In silence, the boy stood close to his mother.

He was pale, too, and stood close to his mother.

He walked close to her mother as she looked for wood in the forest.

Too much time spent close to her mother, he thought.

He looked at the little girl, who cried and pressed close to her mother.

I thought of nothing but him, and I stayed close to my mother.