[i] reaching out | s. trelawney

v. the fall

Then came the fall.

It happened suddenly, so suddenly, like a storm.

He told her to leave the house and never return. He told her to keep as far away from him as possible.

A vision, he said. She had a vision in the night. She said something about him; something about the child.

He thought she was trustworthy, that she was his and his only. She promised him that she was, but he was not convinced. A broken promise; a broken vow.

She felt herself falling with no hope of going back to her happiness. She was alone in the streets. Alone with her unborn child.

It was all too much.

She went to the only place she knew besides his. The only place where she ever felt wanted.

And the woman with cat's eyes welcomed her back.