"...no. She never learned how to exist outside. Every time she ran away she came back pregnant and my cousins exist because of that. Boys, so they had value. 'Lani they were proudest of, until he got infected, then he got locked in the basement." And she was still so very angry about that.

So, so angry.

"Auntie stopped fighting ages ago. Her body got frail, she stayed sick longer. She's dead." She knew it.