And although it wasn’t my fault the barbed wire had been covered in dirt, it was my fault my brace had gotten tangled and the midwife didn’t make it in time. Helen made that perfectly clear. I had killed her baby. She told me so right after we buried her. In a voice low enough Pa couldn’t hear but loud enough I would never forget.
This was a pivotal peeling back of the first layer as we seek to understand Helen and Kathryn's tumultuous relationship. Helen's later actions may be inexcusable, but I wanted readers to at least see the very human motivations behind them.
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