Why did that old man had to come into my thoughts now as I was about to enter these city streets. Was I afraid?
Seth, mum and I watched had watched over dad in silence, I couldn’t help but become engulfed in my own thoughts as dad laid there motionless. As my emotions yo-yoed, I wondered if what the dwarf had done, had made a difference, if I would have another conversation with him or see his coarse hands in action again. I took a quick glance at mum’s unsettled face decorated with wrinkled brows and under eye bags. I knew she hadn’t been sleeping well since dad took ill as she never spent a moment without him from the time I knew myself. In this moment in particular, she reeked of fear more than usual and her internal tears were almost inevitable as they dripped from her sweat glands. I
