Molly looked around. Her birth mother, in spirit form, had been holding her all this time while her grandmother, who was also in spirit, was talking with her.
“It was a terrible accident my dear, but you are alright now, I promise", she said for what felt like the fiftieth time.
“Cars can be like that” she continued explaining - “one minute you were in the world, and the next you can be taken out of it.”
The toddler pushed her head into her mother’s shoulder, wrapped her arm around her neck and clung tight. She started crying again.
“It’s the shock of it all” her grandmother said to her daughter, who was staring into a worldly window where she could see her husband at the scene of the crash. His own car had just pulled up behind the police van, and the ambulance had turned off its lights, resting there, waiting for the Coroner to appear.
-Gabriel Brunsdon, Finding Self - Second Guesses- Azlander Series
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