"Helena, allow the lady Lorena to stand on her feet!" Signora Pallas scolded the little girl clinging onto Lorena's body. She sighed and picked her up when she refused to move.

"I want Lowena!" The little girl kicked defiantly in her arms.

Lorena laughed, slowly standing up from the bed she had been stuck in for the past week. She couldn't wait to finally leave the clinic and the smell of sickness in the air. "See, Signora. I'm stronger now." She said, bouncing on both feet without holding on to anything.

"I'm proud of you, Lorena," She replied over her shoulders as Helena kicked and screamed in her arms. "Be...