“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.

a coupling,” Damien

Nu-reeh and ask her to let you see

my tears

where, Damien. She could be anywhere on

Angela’s Library

looked in his eyes. I saw the spark of challenge and had to laugh. Damien was so sure

to irritate him, “you are a powerful man and

grinned back at me and hugged my body close to his. That seemed to settle the argument for

usual. Christof sat on the bench beside Damien discussing strategy. There had been a fight with bandits on

mountains group,” Damien argued as I finished scrubbing him. “We don’t

with his point. It was a valid way to arrange

had to stifle a laugh. It sounded to me like Christof was just curious. He just wanted to

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