Escape

Swallowing saliva down her dry throat, Lyris turned the envelope over. There was nothing written on it. She stared at it with clenched jaws as emotions whirled in her mind.

“That is the letter that Zyl gave me,” Dora said, shaking her out of her reverie. “She knew that she was dying. She had stomach cancer and it was suddenly detected only a month back. The day it was detected, she came to me in t