First Light

Chapter 58: Early Hopes

"She called for Leo," Eleanor said, her eyes wet with tears as she looked at me. "Her baby. She's delirious with fever and she's calling for her child and he's not here and she thinks he hates her—"

"He doesn't hate her," I said, though I had no evidence for this beyond hope, because I had only seen him once and watched him grab onto his mum, before Sienna shrugged him of