Princesses at Dawn

Sadie

A small, warm hand patted against my cheek, pulling me out of the dark fog of another restless night.

"Sadie, wanta play a dollys?"

For a second, I thought the sound belonged to a half-remembered dream. My pulse raced from the remnants of a nightmare that had gripped my chest for hours, the kind of heavy, suffocating terror that always seemed to stalk me whenever I slept in an unfamilia