Falling and his body instantly going cold, Neveah sighed and looked at Mei Lien watching, “Pudding?” Mei Lien looked at her, “Grab your stuff and come on. I’ll meet you at the door.” Grabbing the few things she did want Mei Lien whispered, “Um I have a friend, but she’s more li-like a sister to me-.” Neveah promised, “She’s waiting in the car. Carmen helped me find you. Come on, get going.”
Rushing out of the room and down the stairs, Mei Lien stopped for five seconds. Seeing her mother...dead or dying too, she was badly beaten and not going to make it. Both knew that.
And as Lai said, maybe the only motherly thing as she took her death breath, “Run!”
Mei Lien listened just as the Reverend got notice of a disturbance. Figuring it’d be her, came running.
Reverend Emil Novis, seeing
