“Luis, I—”
I smacked her hand away.
“Don’t – don’t touch me. Please.”
Shifgrethor kneeled down in front of me and tried to catch my gaze; I looked away. There was silence between us, uncomfortable, raw; and yet none of us could bring ourselves to disturb it.
Time passed, and quietly I managed to force, “I couldn’t save them.”
My cousin gathered my hand into hers. She paused. “You did your best.”
I faced her now. “My sister, your parents… my best ended in failure.”
She gave me a hard stare. “So what are you going to do about it?”
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