Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,
Tears from the depth of some divine despair
Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes,
In looking on the happy Autumn-fields,
And thinking of the days that are no more.
--- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I coughed up blood, spitting it on Anna's boots, as if there wasn't the slightest bit of angst in me. That was a total lie. I was terrified. After hearing the revelation about my baby being on Anna's kill list, I'd become terrified for the tiny life inside of me. I had never expected to get pregnant. It wasn't like we actually... planned it. But now I knew, I was never going to let anyone harm the little life inside of me again.
Anna growled and her eyes flashed gold, before she composed herself. She knew very damn well that these humans, who wer
