Allissa
My tears spilled out silently. I died kneeling there and felt my heart breaking. My baby. She just wanted her mama and I was right in front of her. I couldn’t even reach out and touch her. I couldn’t comfort her. I just wanted her to know it was going to be okay.
Behind me nobody was breathing, and the Nursemaid had turned his face away with his jaw working, and even the darkness at the window had gone more still than the stone it stood on.
“It is time,” Onyssa said at last, and there was something in it I refuse to call gentleness. “You have seen. She sleeps, she eats, she rules my house like a tyrant the size of a boot, and no harm will reach her under my wing. Go home, mother. What comes with the moon cannot be fought, and when it has passed she will be free of the claim, an
