~ Silver ~
I watched over Madeline as she slipped into the healing embrace of sleep and sighed softly, relieved she was resting, letting herself heal. There would be no point to any of this is she burned herself out or was lost before she could even get to her eighteenth birthday. Nothing from this point on would be easy.
Leaving her sleeping peacefully, mind full of fanciful imagination I sipped from the room, stopping Dante in the hall with a look. He was carrying a tray of food but I knew Maddie would sleep for hours before arising again. “She sleeps, best to leave her be.” I said making Dante glower at me.
“Is she ok?” He asked looking worried. For all my dislike of Dante’s headstrong and impulsive nature he had been steadfast in his devotion to Madeline over the last couple days,
