“Of course I shouldn’t indulge you in this melodrama,” Ella quipped as she got to her feet and utterly failed to resist the lure of the drawer in question. She unfolded the letter and folded it immediately, placing it carefully in her pocket for later reading – if Ursula was giving her last words then she might be best to wait until she was alone to read them. She doubted there was anything especially ground-breaking in there but still, it felt as though it ought to be a private moment. Besides which she didn’t know how much longer her sister-in-law would be conscious and she needed all the time she could get to convince herself that life was still possible.
“The healers say there will never be another child,” retaking her seat Ella reached over to wrap her fingers around Ursula’s. “So perhaps all of this has been a blessing in disguise.”
fabulous set by Lady <3