All through her brisk stroll through the road side market, her mind pinged from everything that had happened that morning, and the possibility of what news she would receive tomorrow. She also wondered what hardship or situation could have made a person abandon their baby. Would the mother not miss her child? There was a huge bond that wrapped the relationship of mother and child, and to consciously throw away a child, is to wrench that natural bond nature had created for mothers and their children.
Even as an adult, Mercy did not see herself easily breaking bonds with her mother. They had gone through a lot together too much for such a thing to happen. However, imagine a baby who solely depends on the mother, who is unable to do anything for itself, to be so set aside, and in a garden no less. What if they had not been there to pick the baby?
