“Come on,” I told her once she had drained me. “Let's give you a bath.” In the
bathroom I pulled off all of our coverings and let water flow into the tub. We
wouldn't need much, so I only let it cover the bottom of the pit in a few inches of
water. I sat Hannah on her bottom in the water and had a startling surprise.
She looked up at me and smiled. My day old daughter was holding her head up,
which I knew was not normal for a human baby. When I tentatively released my
grip on her, she continued to sit up on her own. Hannah was perfectly stable.
“Water, Mama,” she told me splashing it around.
Well, maybe not perfectly stable, she surprised herself when water hit her face
and she tipped back. I caught her and proceeded to wash her tiny body.
Hannah fascinated me. I noted her tiny fingers had dark nails. In the future those
would be talons I imagined. Her wings were just two fleshy masses now, but I
saw the hint of tips at each sharp curve. She would be fierce, just like she was
supposed to be. I praised her in the water.
After her bath I wrapped her up in a warm blanket and tried to put her in the bed.
That was boring, Hannah informed me. She didn’t want to sleep. Instead of
sleeping we explored things my men had in the apartment. For some reason, we
ended up in the men’s closet pulling out bags and boxes.
Hannah liked the shiny stones my men had collected and kept there. She rubbed
them and clicked them together for a few moments. I pulled out anything she
might Like to look at.
“Ore!” Hannah said.
She was right. Hidden away were many small pieces of the ore. It had been
buried in a corner beneath several boxes.
“Men should no have ore, Mama, they know,” Hannah told me seriously.
I corrected her wording gently as I tried to put the ore back. They'd never shared
this stash with me. It wasn't clear why they had it.
“It's theirs,” I shrugged, “who knows why they have it.”
“My father,” Hannah used the English word, “once, wanted to run away.” “They
really were miserable, I said touching the hard shiny metal, “but how do you
know that?”
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“When he thought of the ore he always thought of what he had. He tried hard to
get more.”
Suddenly, I felt a pang of fear.
“I wonder if they had planned to take me with them?”
“Yes, Mama,” Hannah said pulling the ore back out.
“Sweet men,” I said smiling.
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