It was time for them both to let go of such selfish stupidity. It was the same selfishness that kept Annie’s mind circling back to trying to plot some sneaky way to steal her mum’s body without generating all sorts of unwanted attention. And it was far too late for that anyway.
Her mum was not coming back.
‘I’m not built like them!’ she cried, pointing vaguely towards Eden. ‘How am I supposed to be happy that she’s gone? She wanted to stay!’
If Harry was confused by her sudden change of topic, he didn’t show it.
‘That’s true. And she did stay,’ he said calmly. ‘For you. And yet even I could tell that a small part of her also wanted to go. If it had been up to you, how long would you have made her wait here for, Annie?’
‘Maybe give me a few thousand more years and ask me again,’ she re
