“My husband, he - he didn’t want me to wake them.” She seemed almost lost in her own thoughts, hardly acknowledging that the other woman approached her. All she ever wanted was to keep her children safe, to make sure they wouldn’t get hurt. And the things she’d seen...those horrible images of her sweet girl on a metal slab - much like the one Olivia’s own body was resting on - and her precious boy’s body, pale and stiff on the ground...she had to keep them safe, didn’t she? “ -- and he took our babies.”
She bit down on her lip, almost hard enough that if she were still alive, she would be drawing blood. “I just want to be with them, I..I want to keep them safe.”
That sweet girl, the girl her youngest had talked so much about - she had woken up. She wasn’t in pain, nor scared, nor alone. That was all she wanted for her children, for her family. Was she aware of what had happened after that? Her eyes - glassy and with a somewhat constant lost look to them - locked on the body. On her. She remembered wanting to wake up, needing to wake up. She remembered that woman, the redhead in the blue dress, helping her. “I...I let go of the railing. I - I had to.” But that. That horrific sight. That she couldn’t recall.