“A RUSH OF impossible warmth cascaded down my chest. “I felt the bonds at my wrists loosened. “I felt a hand upon my chest, like a father guiding his son to sleep. “I felt myself falling. “And as the wind filled my ears, as I began that long tumbling drop down into the mother’s arms, as I closed my eyes and the tears came at the thought that finally, finally, I might see them again, I felt one final sensation. “Gentle as starlight. “Soft as first snows upon my cheek. “Moth wings.”
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