“Ah, no more tears,” he said pulling me onto his lap.

“We will not speak of her if it makes you sad. You lose the food we give you when you are upset.”

Strong arms held me tightly to his chest as I trembled.

“I miss her,” I cried into his neck.

“I worry about her and want desperately to see her. Everyday, I have her on my mind. If I could just know she was all right…” I trailed off.

It was a pipe dream. There was no more way for me to know Hannah was all right than for my mother to know I was all right. The distance may as well be the same. I was not going to get closer to either one of them.

have a coupling,” Damien

I will talk to Nu-reeh and ask her to let

my

could be anywhere on the

Angela’s Library

I looked in his eyes. I saw the spark of challenge and had to laugh.

the formal title to irritate him,

back at me and hugged my body close to his. That seemed to

I washed Damien as usual. Christof sat on the bench beside Damien discussing strategy. There had

the men in the red mountains group,” Damien argued as I finished scrubbing

point. It was a valid way to

a laugh. It sounded to me like Christof was just curious. He just wanted to try something

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