Chapter 37
I stared at her blankly for a few moments. My mouth opened and closed a couple of times but nothing came out. Finally a tear betrayed me as it rolled down my cheek. I didn’t know how to respond to her.
She noticed the tear. ‘I’ve made you unhappy!’ she said, looking around until her eyes rested on one of the Trees of Life. When she looked back at me her face lit up with excitement. ‘If you eat the Fruit, you’ll come back to life and then I can keep you!’
Keep me? She was halfway to the Tree before the rest of her sentence had a chance to properly filter into my brain.
‘Wait! Please! I can’t eat that. Annie … Mum, please!’
She stopped and looked at me, confused.
‘I don’t want to forget. I need to remember. Please, don’t make me eat it.’
‘Make you?’ She pondered the words
