Viggo
“How’s your sister doing?” Walker, a warrior and friend of mine, asks.
I throw a stone into the lake and watch the water ripple. “She’s okay. Thanks for asking. I don’t think my mom will let Melody out of her sight for a while.”
Slayde nods from his seat on the fallen tree opposite me. “True that.”
Slayde, Walker, and Sasappis sit side by side while I sit on a log opposite. We came out here for some fresh air. I needed to get away from my family for a while. I love them all, but over the past few hours, it’s all been too much.
Believing my only sister had died did something to me that nothing else ever has. Melody means the world to me, and thinking I had lost her destroyed me. I took care of my little brothers as was required of me while Mom and Dad were at the infirmary. I mad
