was a truth I couldn’t stand to face.


    She came back after I’d wrapped my hands. For some reason I couldn’t find that miraculous cream my


    men had. They had tucked it away somewhere.


    “What did you do to your hands, Mama?” she asked crawling onto my Lap. I sighed theatrically, “That


    tub in the bathroom, I’ve been trying to get it cleaner and I’m just not having any Luck. I was so vicious


    with it this morning I cut my hands. Come eat, it’s not bad. I’ll heal.”


    She curled into myp as I held her and she took her meal quietly. Once I was drained, I could see her


    anxiously eyeing the door.


    “Go,” I said swatting her bottom, “stay out of the mines.”


    She was gone and I tried to clean, but it wasn’t working. I ended up just sitting and staring into the fire.


    It wasing so quickly, I just wasn’t prepared.


    If I’d had my wits about me I would have spent the time looking for that cream.


    “What happened?!” was what roared out of Damien’s mouth after he removed the bandages and saw


    my raw fingertips.


    He was furious and demanded to know what happened. Evan wanted to go tell Nu-reeh I couldn’t clean


    anymore. Even Kein and Christof were upset. Bane marched into the bathroom Like he was going to


    dismantle it.


    “It’s not the bathroom’s fault,” I said exasperated at their overreaction.


    “I just…I just realized how fast Hannah is growing. Once her teethe in, she won’t need me


    anymore,” thest of iting out as a whisper as I slumped over.


    “She*1l be gone very soon.”


    Bane walked back out of the bathroom with the healing cream looking confused. They all appeared


    confused. All eyes turned to Christof and I saw him ept the responsibility to deal with this.


    “We don’t understand,” he said simply sitting beside me, “please exin.”


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    I took a shuddering breath and allowed Bane to put the healing cream on them.


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    “In my home world,” I exined as he worked, “a child stays with it’s mother for eighteen cycles of the


    sun.”


    They looked quizzically at me. That wasn’t how they tracked time. I tried a second time.


    “Six of your moons cycles repeated eighteen times,” I said.


    It wasn’t exact, but it was near the right amount of time.


    “That is a really long time,” Keinmented settling on a chair.


    I nodded and continued.


    “I know Hannah doesn’t need that long. She would feel cramped and contained if I tried to keep her like


    that. It just feels so wrong to me to be preparing her to leave me now. Selfishly, I know I will miss her.


    To raise a child and then to never see her again…” my voice broke and I dropped my head in my


    hands.