“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

is very soon. I will talk to Nu-reeh and ask her

dried my tears

who knows where, Damien. She could be anywhere on

Angela’s Library

spark of challenge and had to

irritate him, “you are a powerful man and I do not doubt

hugged my body close to his. That

that night and I washed Damien as usual. Christof sat on the bench beside Damien discussing strategy. There had been a fight with bandits on the road today and Christof thought there was a

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

his point. It was a valid way to arrange themselves and it

me like Christof was just

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