"Ten days had passed, but Raeleigh couldn't remember why she had come here."

She accompanied her mother in the garden every day and followed her to see her work in the painting studio. She had to admit that she had a very talented and romantic mother.

"It was raining that day. Raeleigh had returned from her mother's room. When the weather was bad, her mother would lie in bed. Raeleigh would feel distressed when she saw how uncomfortable her body looked. But there was no other way around it. It was pain that remained from her younger times."

"She accompanied her mother for a while before heading back. She remembered...