14. The mother

Hannah walked on the streets, her feet was almost blue, they stopped hurting from the cold, and instead they had gone numb. “Just a few more blocks” she mumbled to herself. When she walked down the streetwalker’s area, the men began to approach her, asking for her price. She just kept walking, ignoring them, folding her arms across her chest. At least the look of women walking around in night gowns weren’t a rare sight in this part of the city. She regretted that she hadn’t stolen a coat or a blanket before she left the hospital, but she just wasn’t the type that stole anything.

Finally, she arrived at the orphanage. She hesitated in front of the gate, what if the headmaster was there…… But she had promised Toby to come back… What if the headmaster had punished her troops when she had disappeared…Hannah argued back and forth a few times, but then she decided, that her troops was way more important.