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Her dark brown hair was longer, hanging down her neck in little ringlets Her lashes had always been long, feathering her rosy cheeks Soft baby lips were slightly parted as she lay on her back, her breathing slow and easy

She looked picture perfect A babe, innocent in her sluht, happy dreaes

Her face was thinner, the features altered al alhter, with soft black and reddened streaks showing theolden brown

There was the faintest point to a tiny ear and every so often a very distinct purr

“She’s running a fever,” Rachel whispered, her voice husky with tears “She’s been running one for the past two days It’s spiked on us twice, going over a hundred, and Dr Morrey has tried everything to bring it down Nothing works Then it will just go away on its own”

“Should she be here?” Diane wanted nothing more than to reach out and pick her niece up, to cuddle her, to hold her closely and keep whatever was torain

“Dr Morrey is in the next roo here as well, they decided it best to bring Amber That way, she’s with us if needed”

Another little purr left the baby as a s away

Lawe stood behind Diane, his hand resting against her hip as he too watched the baby She could feel his concern Just as she could feel Jonas’s as he stood behind her sister

“She’s healthy,” Jonas whispered “Ely keeps a daily check on her She’s not hurting”

But that was little coe

“Did you get lanced back at the director

He gave a sharp nod “The irls were killed by Gideon, though”

“Before I could get to thereed “I only had their assistants that I could talk to”

The inforirls had survived, obviously, but those assistants hadn’t understood how, or why Because the stages of agonizing pain and adjust for death more often than not