An entry A Day, Just to See You Once More

[[An old highschool English assignment]]

A young family of 35, living in an era of the 1600's face a dreadful fate after their daughter of 8 years old, died. Iphigenia, having been ill of a mysterious disease with no cure, passed off as the flu, passes on her birthday.

Her father, Jon, writes to her everyday as a hope of humanity, or is it sanity? As he tries to grasp the unbearable fate that his daughter has left so soon. He speaks of how his wife, Darline, grows ill herself, mournful and unbothered, rotting away merely 100 feet away from where he rests at night.

King Charles the II, speaks of a Plauge infecting their streets. Jon fearing that, perhaps this is what took his daughter away from his arms, as Darline refuses as it's nothing but a hoax.

Was it the plauge that strips the family apart? A dying heart of unbearable pain? Or is it god stripping away the good they had from sins created in a past life.