Intermission: A Lost Fragment

Clasping the young child's body to her, the woman wept.

The child was cold and lifeless.

Dead. Lost, irrevocably.

She sobbed for this life that could never be recovered. No price seemed

too steep if it could mean the little one's return. Her baby was irreplaceable

to her.

But it wouldn't work. She knew that. Time couldn't rewind.

That knowledge was of little comfort and did not give her reason to wish

otherwise.

"Someone, please… Save my baby…"

Her wails echoed through the world.

No one answered her plea. No one was there.

Her quavering, interminable sobs only filled up her little corner of the

world.