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Leana slipped into the room, he opened the door for, hoping this wasn’t a trap. Some sick joke. That the other woman was really in here… But also sort of hoping she wasn’t.

Leana froze. Eyes fastened on the bed. An actual bed. Just the legs were almost a foot off the floor. And the actual mattress was a foot above that. The sheets and pillows were white. The pillows large, and fluffed like clouds. No one has white things… 

Glancing both ways, she dropped the bag between the bed and the wall, and… smiling in her eyes jumped on the bed. Spreading her arms wide, and sinking her face into the cushion. Paradise. Absolute paradise. She had the strange urge to giggle.

But guilt and grief rushed her simultaneously. “What am I doing?” She whispered and pushed herself up while looking around the dark room. “Where did my brother die? On a bloody battlefield? As my father watched? Has Dada been crying himself to sleep, each night? On the dirt. In mud? Crying for mother, and the child he saw die? Oh, Star Breather…” Leana’s throat closed, and tears rushed to her eyes again. Hoping the other girl truly wasn’t there, she slipped off the bed… also not wanting her dirty clothes to muss the bedspread… and wept on the floor. Hugging her knees to her chest.

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@ragnarok