Two Bodies, One Soul

“…Mirina was ashamed to admit it even to herself, but sometimes she dreamed… No, not of her sisters’ death, of course. She just wanted, at least for one day, to be the only child in the family again. So that all her mother’s attention would be focused on her again. So that she wouldn’t drive her out to the garden and scold her for poorly washed floors and over-salted soup—so her mother would simply sit beside her. Ask how she was doing, why her daughter had been so gloomy and quiet lately.

And the girl really did have reasons to be in a bad mood.

The thing was, she had fallen in love…”