Elements - A Night by the Creek

"Amaya, why did Mommy leave us?"
Tori looked up to me, tears gathering in her eyes. As she locked her hands together, knuckles white, I knew I couldn't tell her the truth. I took her cold fingers into my own and vowed to protect her from harm for as long as I live.
"She'll only be gone for a little while, we will see her soon. She loved you very much, sister."

I crouch down to her height and embrace her, not as myself, but as her mother. For that is what I shall be from now on, or at least until we leave this world. Just like she did. I comforted her 'til she went into her dream world, a world where she can have anything and everything she wants; she deserves more than this life could give her. She truly is, the only thing I live for.