Some stories are so ridiculous that they often make others wonder if they could actually happen. But there are some that make one say, "Did this really happen?"
This was one of them.
Listening to Old Mrs. Pierson talk about Zoren's mother left Slater speechless. All this time, Slater, and perhaps many others, believed that Zoren's mother simply abandoned him. Who knew? She probably eloped with another man, leaving her son and husband behind.
But this was something that Slater, or perhaps everyone, wouldn't expect. After all, who would think that a mother, who would naturally and instinctively love and care for her child, would be the one to try to take the little life she carried for months and brought into this world out of jealousy?
No wonder Old Mrs. Pierson and Zoren wouldn't talk about her.
After trying to kill Zoren so brutally, she would try to hide her crime by setting her own home on fire.
