It was night time when Rose awoke with a start. She hadn’t meant to sleep so long. She knew she had to be alert during the night to protect Esmeralda who still slept. She was worried about her sister and her consistent fatigue. Usually, the magic folk recover within a couple of days unless they were injured, but Esmeralda hadn’t been. Her exhaustion came from helping with the rescue from the Faerie castle, but she should have recovered. Rose was beginning to worry the baby was taking a large toll on her sister. She was quite small and petite where Will was huge, well over 6’3. Rose was determined she would keep an eye on her sister. She knew chances were it would be her at the birth and not Will and that hurt her. As much as she was looking forward to meeting her nephew, she was
