That night, Rachel prepared herself to see Micah in her dreams, but he never came. After a dreamless sleep, she woke in the early hours of the morning, to see only the shadows of Mercy, Cherry Jane and Thomas Augustus standing by her, while Nobody and Mary Grace lay next to each other, sharing the bed for the first time. For Micah to have left even her unconscious—that was too much. Finally, tears flowed again. She sat there in the dark, stifling her sobs to avoid waking the others, while her still-lost, maybe-dead children looked on gravely.
