As Helena and Dalia got home late at night, they tiptoed carefully in order to not wake up all the sleeping children in the house.
Although it hadn't even been a year since they came to the capital while looking for justice for what had happened to them, they looked like completely different people.
For one thing, they weren't emaciated, at all, anymore. After all, before, they had had to scrounge for every morsel, meaning that their nutrition was severely lacking, which had led to them being scrawny and quite unhealthy.
With fuller cheeks, sturdier bones and filled-out bodies, there was already a massive change, but the main difference between who they were before and who they were now was their eyes.
In their eyes…was the confidence of those who had made their way in the world and succeeded, but hadn't forgotten where they had come from.
