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The young silver girl was a mere shell of her former self now, feeling frail and weak and frightened and upset from the news she had been given. It seemed so impossible that she had been asleep for so long, but she found it difficult to move and she felt smaller. This was the worst she had ever felt in her life, both physically and in terms of her mental and emotional state. She knew nothing of what had happened in the past month. What had her siblings thought? Was her mother going to be okay? She looked so fretfully tired and nearly and frail as Artemis saw herself when she looked down to her own body, covered and smothered by the blanket that felt so heavy on her small and weakened frame.
She did not want to hear whether or not Denali had left because of her or not, and she was glad her mother didn’t tell her that. It would have been comforting to hear that she was definitely not the cause for his departure, but she would not have accepted that answer, as she did not believe it. Her brother had run away right after she had fallen from the roof when they had been playing together and he had thrown the ball so that it got stuck on the roof. Even if her mother had tried to tell her that it was not actually her fault, the young Marino would not have believed it. It simply had to be her fault that Denali had left; what else could it have been?
Though it was not good news, the snow storm brought the diversion that she needed so desperately right now. “Was anyone hurt?” she asked, voice sounding so small and so unlike the young vibrant girl it used to belong to. Artemis was tried, more tired than she had ever felt before in her life. Was she always going to feel like this now, so tired despite a month’s worth of sleep?
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