Angel of Light [English Version] (Completed)

Chapter 19: Connections

For Lexa it was a new and strange experience to have a child in her apartment, and in her life temporarily. It's not that she did not like the situation, she liked children, and little Carl's presence caused her to relive sweet memories with her beloved Costia, who always dreamed of having several children and they were already planning to have a baby when the tragedy hit them.

Costia had a weakness for children, especially babies, always offering to give free classes in elementary schools that had little few resources. Lexa always admired the multi-tasker of a woman that was her wife and the enormous love that always pushed her to help the neediest, especially children. Undoubtedly she had a kind soul, with a kind heart and a joy for life that infected everyone who knew her. The magic smile of Costia could illuminate the darkest places and Lexa always marveled at that beautiful virtue.

Lexa was not so familiar with the kids, but she liked them, and thanks to her sweet Costia she had managed to get close to them through her wife, since sometimes the doctor went to look for her in those poor schools, and Costia always invited her to enter the classroom and wait for her to finish the class, introducing her to the happy children as her beloved wife, and sometimes even using her to explain some details of health issues, or also to read some books to the children next to her, representing a character in the stories.

Those were beautiful memories that Lexa would always keep in her mind and heart forever.

Lexa found it strange that Carl had bonded with her almost immediately, but she also remembered that Costia had told her on several occasions, that the children were simple in their decisions, in those whom they liked and who they did not and it was the same with adults they met. They did not have any middle ground, they either liked you and connected with you, or they did not. In this case, Lexa was grateful to have the good fortune that Carl apparently liked her, and thanks to that, she had almost no problems taking him with her to her big apartment.

When they arrived, Lexa explained to Carl where the different rooms were, such as the bathroom, the kitchen, and the living room. Lexa also indicated where the armchair was in the living room, the large television and some other furniture so that the child would adapt to his new surroundings and what was around him. Carl nodded, and sometimes Lexa could tell that he looked like he was counting, while he fumbled with his white cane toward the furniture and the narrow spaces.

Since she was an ophthalmologist, Lexa was aware that many blind people counted the steps and directions of right or left, front and back, to help them adapt to new places.

She had always been passionate about the enormous capacity that human beings possess to guide us even when we did not have a sense as vital as sight. Carl was born blind, something that occurred during the development of pregnancy, in the last months of pregnancy. Lexa still needed to talk to Ontari about her nine months of pregnancy, if something had happened that could have caused blindness to the baby.  Lexa would also discuss his case with her colleague, Dr. Kane.

That led her to remember that next week there was a free space to operate on Clarke, but with everything that had happened, Lexa really did not know what state the artist was in, and if she still wanted to proceed with the operation. Lexa needed to talk to Clarke, explain everything, and be as sincere as possible. She hated the situation so much and felt a feeling of great sorrow for Clarke, who in a matter of hours not only suffered the shocking surprise of her best friend's hidden profession, but the final blow was to learn very badly, of her dark secret.

Lexa ate pizza with Carl, then she helped the child to take a bath and laid him on her bed, then reading him a story from his favorite book by the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen, who was her favorite author and her late wife's too, a detail that put a smile in on her face.