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Apr. 3rd, 2012 07:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
time_for_lynnThe house was in ruins, boxes overturned, walls smoldering, and the roof was gone. Lynn looked up, at the sky, then back at the figure of her mother who hugged her legs to her chest in a corner surrounded by shattered glass.
"What did you do?" she asked Janie "Where's Sara?"
Janie's eyes were empty, the woman now only a shell. Lynn forced herself to breathe, and start the clean up.
The twelve year old picked up the boxes and shoved things back inside of them, she swept the floors and cleaned soot from walls. Windows were covered by cardboard held up with a bit of beginning magic. But she couldn't fix the roof, or the woman in the corner.
Instead she dressed in her uniform and teleported to school. She'd make sure Janie got out of the corner and ate something when she got home.
"What did you do?" she asked Janie "Where's Sara?"
Janie's eyes were empty, the woman now only a shell. Lynn forced herself to breathe, and start the clean up.
The twelve year old picked up the boxes and shoved things back inside of them, she swept the floors and cleaned soot from walls. Windows were covered by cardboard held up with a bit of beginning magic. But she couldn't fix the roof, or the woman in the corner.
Instead she dressed in her uniform and teleported to school. She'd make sure Janie got out of the corner and ate something when she got home.
