Ella and May waited quietly to see if they could hear anything else. Everything had been quiet for a while.
"Are you doing okay?" May asked Ella quietly. "After all this, I just realized that you lost your mate too." There was a tenderness and also a sadness. Ella paused. She had felt the pain of rejection, but she had also been blocking out a lot of her feelings since it happened, since she had to worry about self-preservation. However, Electra had been very quiet.
"I am just numb right now. I have not had time to think about what I have lost. Everything has been a running blur since before it happened." She spoke honestly to the woman. May put up a hand and caressed the side of Ella's face, "I know." was all she said. The silence lingered after that. May almost seemed
