It honestly looked like what I had seen of my sister running around in just bra and panties.I looked through her dresses and found a yellow silky feel...pullover dress that was a little longer than mini. It came down halfway between my crotch and knees. This was my starting point. I went back to her underwear drawers. As I looked through, I looked at myself in the mirror and seen Becky for the first time, she was the hidden girl in me I wanted to see. I was raised in the hippie days and my hair. Something bright and shining, something intoxicating and heady. I couldn't stand up to the armies of the world. I wasn't a Queen. I was a knight.I fought monsters. I didn't start empires.I forced myself to stand. My companions watched me, Chaun kneeling over Thrak, feeding him a healing potion, Aurora standing nearby hugging herself. Xera stood with horror in her eyes, tears falling down her cheeks, her right hand dripping with the dragon's blood. Minx clung to her, looking like a lost child.. "I'll help you find your way to the health lodge," I offered.The three of them looked surprised to see the two of us there at first.Anne spoke up. "I'll stay here with your girls until you get back," she offered.She didn't wait for their answer. She walked through the screen door at once."Thanks," Patrice said, greeting me with a smile. I was starting to feel like I'd climb a mountain for that smile.Abby was carrying some clothes. I knew the routine. We didn't talk, more for the girl's sake. It. She carried on again on the ship because she was aware of each and every member of that team that survived was going to die. She watched the other before they got to safety. She knew what would eventually happen, and she ignored it. She used the alien as a distraction from the pain of that reality.But they all deserved so much more than this.Now, Rachele finds herself in an eerily similar situation. She is so eager to pretend that the baby inside her isn’t there. She is so willing to forget.