The Light of the World by Ellen Simpson

Author:Ellen Simpson [Simpson, Ellen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ylva Publishing
Published: 2015-12-16T02:00:00+00:00

Part Two

The Unsent Letter

Chapter 15

Al & Eva

July 25, 1925

I had a dream last night about the room under the city. Wren was there, standing before the great wall of light, her hands raised up in supplication. It wasn’t right. Everything was all wrong. She was screaming at the wall, begging it to stay closed. It wasn’t time, she said over and over again, it was too soon.

The wall erupted then, and blackness oozed from its center. It engulfed Wren and consumed her. Her screams—oh, her screams were terrible. I was rooted to the spot, I could not move, I could not breathe. Wren was dying before me and I couldn’t do anything at all.

I woke up screaming. Judith was banging on my door and I barely had time to put on a robe before she and Mrs. Talbot burst into the room. They were frantic. I’d been screaming, crying and sobbing for what felt like hours. I’d awoken Judith and she’d run for Mrs. Talbot.

I could not keep my composure, even though Judith makes me so angry sometimes. I did not want to show the weakness of being scared of a nightmare to her, not when she already thought so little of me. She gathered me up in her arms, though, without saying a word, and held me while Mrs. Talbot checked the room over and made sure that the window was closed and locked. The room was so hot and stuffy.

Judith held me like a mother would her child while I cried myself to sleep.

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