Allissa

My tears spilled out silently. I died kneeling there and felt my heart breaking. My baby. She just wanted her mama and I was right in front of her. I couldn’t even reach out and touch her. I couldn’t comfort her. I just wanted her to know it was going to be okay.

Behind me nobody was breathing, and the Nursemaid had turned his face away with his jaw working, and even the darkness at the window had gone more still than the stone it stood on.

“It is time,” Onyssa said at last, ...