#Chapter17
Carmen
/"The past has passed. Let's focus on the now and the future and making your mom well./" I utter quietly, but with determination. A need in me to offer her some sort of hope now that I can feel her mood has returned to distant and closed off. It's like there's no light in this girl at all and she has become so accustomed to dwelling in the dark that her very warmth has ebbed into nothingness the second she reels it back to her damp cave with her.
