Living in a nightmare

“You didn’t kill her” her voice filled with tears. For her lost daughter, for all the pain it had caused them both. For Eligos, who had been alone out here this entire time, living with his guilt.

She heard the faint measure of hope in his voice, and knew how truly lost he had been. “I’m utterly certain. She died from the aneurysm” Her daughter, her poor daughter. Eligos didn’t kill her, Riva did. She had broken quarantine, and encountered her unaffected daughter. She was the reason Dante was infected, why she was dead.

She cleared her throat, trying to push away the obstacle in her throat, and picked up the bandages she had dropped. She finished applying them to Eligos, with paws that she was ashamed to admit shook. “Please come home, Eligos. We need you.”


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