Maeve
“Does it hurt here?” I press his abdomen and the child shakes his head.
“What about here?”
“No. “
“Good. You did great. You can lie down now. “
“When can I go out?” he asks, his huge brown eyes full of expectation and I bite back the truth.
“Soon. “ I tell him, “Very soon. “
“Before the snow comes?”
“I…” I instinctively look through the small window in his room.
“When does it start snowing here?”
The child grins and it somehow reminds me of the way Ben grins so much that my chest hurts.
“It snows all the time in winter,” Jessie says.
“Really?”
“Mhmh. Doesn’t it snow where you come from?”
“Sometimes. But not too much. “
“Woah! "The kid exclaims, “And you have horses. Can I see your horse when I get better?“
I don’t respond right away. I have to leave Gelidora at so
