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Oct. 14th, 2002 05:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kuangningShe awoke to find a different nurse standing beside her bed. In the plastic and metal bassinette lay a tightly-swaddled bundle, eyes shut and black wisps of hair curling wildly.
She smiled, falling through a dizzy, giddy moment of recognition. The nurse reached down and picked the infant up, and as she reached up to take her daughter from the nurse's arms, already jealous of contact, she knew that nothing would ever be the same. Frightened but joyful, she took the baby.
Alys -- Allie? Lyssa, she decided mentally -- woke as the transfer was made, though the infant did not cry. Solemn eyes fastened on hers, and she felt hers widen. Lyssa's eyes were a deep violet. "Where," she asked the baby softly, "did you get those?" There was no response, of course, and she sighed, unwrapping the swaddling and running her fingertips lightly over the baby's tiny legs and toes. Lyssa's skin was wrinkled, tissue-thin, and papery, blue-traced veins visible underneath. "You're so beautiful," she whispered, hugging the baby close. "So beautiful." She didn't notice when the nurse left the room.
She smiled, falling through a dizzy, giddy moment of recognition. The nurse reached down and picked the infant up, and as she reached up to take her daughter from the nurse's arms, already jealous of contact, she knew that nothing would ever be the same. Frightened but joyful, she took the baby.
Alys -- Allie? Lyssa, she decided mentally -- woke as the transfer was made, though the infant did not cry. Solemn eyes fastened on hers, and she felt hers widen. Lyssa's eyes were a deep violet. "Where," she asked the baby softly, "did you get those?" There was no response, of course, and she sighed, unwrapping the swaddling and running her fingertips lightly over the baby's tiny legs and toes. Lyssa's skin was wrinkled, tissue-thin, and papery, blue-traced veins visible underneath. "You're so beautiful," she whispered, hugging the baby close. "So beautiful." She didn't notice when the nurse left the room.
