sylvia hugged you as she sobbed, you gently patted her hair. She was your best friend and you’d do anything to protect her but this…this was to much, the burns, the cuts, the lashes and all from those rotten people. Her caretaker and her siblings and the kids. All of ‘em. You held her tightly as you thought about ways to hurt them like they hurt her. She sobbed on your shoulder. She was never going back. She’d stay with you no matter what