Shine a little light on me

The voice that came to her pulled at her heart as she squinted against the fiery river trying to make out just where it was coming from. It wasn’t just the heat and sulphur that was making her eyes water. She hadn’t known where her mother or siblings had gone in all the craziness of the world going dark. “M-Mum?” she managed to choke out as her eyes finally fell on the familiar form of the most important constant in her life. She raced to close the gap, throwing caution to the wind despite the strange goings on of late, burying her face in the fur of her mother’s chest. “Where have you been?!”

“Speech.”