Views & Cards II

"You won't be, Arya," he asserts. "The way you say it, I know you will never be your mother. You're Arya, you're better than them."

"Thank you," she muses with a tender smile on her lips.

She was thinking of him too. She knows that what Ayden has given her are crumbs that lead her nowhere. Furthermore, she considers him to be she sleeps, and when she wakes, and he is gone.

"Crumbs…" she repeats and goes to her mother to see her. "Good morning, Mom," Arya greets as she enters.

Mirella, lying face down, her face looks swollen from where she is.

"Mama, Mama!" she exclaims in fright and walks to her side.

Sebas, hearing her, as well as Sam and Bruno, arrive immediately.

Mirella lies beaten about the face, lip split, naked and with bruises on her body. Arya covers her again, imagining the worst. Bea walks over and sees, pulling everyone out of the room.

"Sebas, call Mr. and John."

"Oh my God..." whisper, Sam and Bruno. "We have to get her to a hospital."

"No... no" Mirella says between whi