Her thoughts threatened to break her hold over the little sanity she had managed to rein in over the past few years after meeting him. The mental clarity that came from all this time she spent with him and her children felt like it might just up and go, and she could not allow that, she could not allow madness to lay claim to her once more.
No, that cannot happen. He will leave me…
Miranda was slowly losing herself until the small voice of Estrel reached her ears.
"Mother, what are you doing staring at empty air for?"
The girl complained, her face still flushed from over exertion, "Hurry up and go meet him!
That strange uncle said he had something he wanted to tell you after waking Father up."
The girl's face was clouded with questions at the mention of the strange uncle who had suddenly appeared in their home and miraculously treated their father's disease.
