[She can believe it, she thinks. She can believe it wasn’t their fault... and though she doesn’t know if no one amongst their group could have helped, she at least can think that people like her and Sheryl, people without those sorts of powers and knowledge, surely couldn’t be held accountable...
Her hands tighten a bit further on Sheryl’s arms to prevent herself from releasing the other girl, to stop the urge to cradle nothing but air in her arms where once she had held infants, making them laugh and soothing them when they cried. Her own tears grow bitter, hotter, even as her head hangs low, biting fiercely at her bottom lip but unable to stop how her shoulders shake beneath Sheryl’s cheek.]
I just can’t stop thinking about the children... they didn’t deserve any of that, they-
[Her voice breaks, the dam holding back the worst of her sobs beginning to break.]
I had one in my arms, she was there, and then when we were pulled back here-
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[She can believe it, she thinks. She can believe it wasn’t their fault... and though she doesn’t know if no one amongst their group could have helped, she at least can think that people like her and Sheryl, people without those sorts of powers and knowledge, surely couldn’t be held accountable...
Her hands tighten a bit further on Sheryl’s arms to prevent herself from releasing the other girl, to stop the urge to cradle nothing but air in her arms where once she had held infants, making them laugh and soothing them when they cried. Her own tears grow bitter, hotter, even as her head hangs low, biting fiercely at her bottom lip but unable to stop how her shoulders shake beneath Sheryl’s cheek.]
I just can’t stop thinking about the children... they didn’t deserve any of that, they-
[Her voice breaks, the dam holding back the worst of her sobs beginning to break.]
I had one in my arms, she was there, and then when we were pulled back here-
[She was gone.]