Barely making any sound, Shikera tiptoed back into her room in the hospital, the same way she went outside. The whispering voices were still behind the curtain, and that meant no one had noticed she went outside. Closing the distance between her and the bed, she laid on it and pulled the sheets over her head, closing her eyes.
"Sleep...sleep..." She chanted inwardly, trying to lull herself to sleep. After tossing and turning for a few minutes, she finally drifted off into a light nap, only to wake up not long after.
"...not a strong man, Dad!" She heard Noah's voice right beside her, while feeling her hands which were lying on either sides of her, wrapped by two different hands on the two sides of the bed. Not wanting to alert them that she was awake, Shikera laid there with her eyes closed.
"It's my fault, Noah! I was just so stupid that I didn't think about you and Kera. What if you were not lucky?"