“Come on,” I told her once she had drained me. “Let’s give you a bath.” In the bathroom I pulled off all of our coverings and let water flow into the tub. We wouldn’t need much, so I only let it cover the bottom of the pit in a few inches of water. I sat Hannah on her bottom in the water and had a startling surprise.

She looked up at me and smiled. My day old daughter was holding her head up, which I knew was not normal for a human baby. When I tentatively released my grip on her, she continued to sit up on her own. Hannah was perfectly stable.

“Water, Mama,” she told me splashing it around.

Well, maybe not perfectly stable, she surprised herself when water hit her face and she tipped back. I caught her and proceeded to wash her tiny body.

Hannah fascinated me. I noted her tiny fingers had dark nails. In the future those would be talons I imagined. Her wings were just two fleshy masses now, but I saw the hint of tips at each sharp curve. She would be fierce, just like she was supposed to be. I praised her in the water.

After her bath I wrapped her up in a warm blanket and tried to put her in the bed.

That was boring, Hannah informed me. She didn’t want to sleep. Instead of sleeping we explored things my men had in the apartment. For some reason, we ended up in the men’s closet pulling out bags and boxes.

stones my men had collected and kept there. She rubbed them and clicked them together for a few

“Ore!” Hannah said.

away were many small pieces of the ore. It had

no have ore, Mama, they know,” Hannah told

They’d never shared this stash with me. It wasn’t

theirs,” I shrugged, “who knows why they

the English word, “once, wanted to run away.” “They really were miserable,“ I said touching the hard shiny metal, “but how

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Hannah said pulling the ore

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