While I slept, my brother Ethan was anxious for me. He knew I wasn’t dead, and he wanted to know what happened to my body. His need to protect me was still there, he could still sense my presence, our connection, it hadn’t been severed as I hoped.
Leo had retrieved my body and had placed me on a blanket in the forest while I finished my transition. He didn’t want me to wake next to Anisah and grieve for her again as I had as a human, as I did up until the day I died. My mother had come with him to watch over me. Ethan had followed our mother and asked her what was going on.
‘My son, death is inevitable. We mourn those who die, we mourn the life they were supposed to have, we mourn for the life we had with them, we mourn for what we lost. It is not an ending for Katherine, it is a new be
