Chapter Thirty-Five
Cherry spent the time following Isobel’s death feeling like she was walking through a fog. When people spoke to her their voices sounded distant and muffled. She had to strain to hear what they were saying. Everything she saw appeared as if she were looking at it through a veil. Nothing seemed real except for the fact that Isobel had died.
Cherry had hardly known her. She’d mostly thought of her as Kes’ wife, and then as someone smart enough to figure out how to work on the Guardian’s head. Isobel had also been a loving, kind mother to Miki and, in the short time Cherry had spent with her, she’d come to believe that despite their different personalities, they could also have been good friends.
Life in Chimera continued on, the ripple caused by the death of a woman in
