Sacrifice

“Brother!” Cazue supported me as I walked. I sat up in my bed breathlessly.

He took the first aid kit under my study table. He immediately treated my wound.

“Where are Dero and Mother?” I asked as I rubbed every touch of cotton with betadine on my face.

“She’s just going to visit Aunt Flora.” I mentioned to my mother about her which she was happy with.

Ever since I told her about that, Mother has always been happy. She was also not often sad at night. Once when I peeked in her room, she was talking with Father’s picture. She said his death was imminent.

In the few...