Chapter 43: Shelter

Callie spent her days between school and the Tomb. Vin had honored her request and the two of them had not returned to his residence for a while now.

When she wasn’t rehearsing, she was downstairs, helping feed or entertain the children. Weeks passed, and each day, Callie watched the number of people in the refuge dwindle.

As the city was rebuilt, more and more people left, but the children stayed, they had nowhere else to go.

Callie, together with her friends, Ella and Sienna, helped the women who had volunteered to stay behind to care for the kids.

When she asked them about the possibility of putting the children in an orphanage, the women advised against it.

“It’s not a good place, Miss,” one had told her. “I have friends who grew up in the system, they didn’t have any good stories to share.”

“The orphanage is understaffed. There is not enough money to feed and clothe the children there, let alone provide for the social workers.”

Callie knew it all too well.

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