I Raised My Brother’s Daughters For Fifteen Years Until He Gave Me A Sealed Envelope

said, that everything was cleared and transferred, that their names were on it, that whatever he had spent the fifteen years doing, part of it had been this.

Lyra picked up a page and read it with the careful attention she gave to formal documents, and she asked if it was real, and I said yes, and she asked if it was all in their names, and I said yes.continue reading …