I stay awake for as long as... «Foster»
robot21 декабря 2024I stay awake for as long as I can, then make myself get up and use the chamber pot, but only a dribble comes out. I go back to bed, more than half afraid, and fall asleep. At some point later in the night – it feels much later – the woman comes in. I grow still and breathe as though I have not wakened. I feel the mattress sinking, the weight of her on the bed.
‘God help you, Child,’ she say. ‘If you were mine, I’d never leave you in a house with strangers.’
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