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Chapter 2 No One to Comfort Her
When she was sure he was asleep she went straight to Lark. Since it was only 10:00 at night Lark was up reading. When Lark saw Sandry's troubled face Lark was worried "What is it dear?" Sandry told Lark about Briar's dream and her worries. Lark was also troubled. "Sandry you must go check on your uncle, it could be he had a heart attack. I will pack some things for you but you must leave tonight!" She said very fast, very soft. Sandry galloped from Winding Circle only 15 minutes later.
Sandry arrived at the Duke's home shortly after 2 the next morning. When she entered the palace she asked if the Duke was asleep. The few maids that were up said they thought so. With Sandry fearing Briar's dream she raced to her uncle's room. When she got there what she saw shocked her. Her uncle was lying in bed with a knife through his heart and his eyes closed to their world. Sandry screamed and in shock, she went into unconsciousness without even dreams for comfort.
When she came around Briar, Lark, and everyone from Discipline was sitting around her bed sleeping because it was late at night. She stretched and the image of her poor uncle and her pain hit her like a rock. He's dead. She thought with great pain. Sandry wept softly for her dear uncle. Briar hearing a noise and thinking it was a nurse to poke at Sandry, woke up to silently swat the nurse away. When he woke up he saw the most heart wrenching thing he hoped he would never see, Sandry was crying into her hands so quietly not to wake anyone up and her eyes were so red which meant she had been crying for more than a half hour. She was alone and no one was holding her. Briar silently sat next to her and held her while she cried. She cried so long it was dawn when she stopped finally. Only when she stopped crying did she realize that Briar was holding her. She pulled away and said in a hoarse voice from crying so long "Sorry I woke you up." Briar immediately hugged her again and said fiercely "Never should anybody in pain cry alone." Sandry then went back to sleep with only dreams of grief for comfort.
When she woke again Briar was pacing at the end of her bed and the others were staring at her bed with worry etched into all of their faces. The first to notice Sandry was awake was Lark. She ran to Sandry's bed and gave her a loving hug and kissed her forehead protectively. "Sandry! You poor dear, are you all right?" Lark asked her. Hearing Lark talk to Sandry everyone raced over. Briar held her while Sandry cried again. Everybody joined together to hold her. Sandry barely noticed she was so lost to the pain. She felt as if half of her soul had been ripped of. Rosethorn brought her some tea still warm from the kettle. Sandry accepted it with a small 'thank you'. After she finished her tea she said "How long have I been here?" Tris said "three days, you went into emotional shock and passed out. A maid heard you scream and found you. Guards got to us about 4 hours later." Everyone nodded sadly.
Sandry got up to see to the citadel staff. Everyone went about their chores in a numb silence with a few apologies to Sandry. That night when Sandry went to bed she cried for her lost uncle in reincarnation. She would always wonder if she was dreaming or not but she swore she saw her uncle showing her an image. It was a woman, who by the looks of it, had had a spot disease and had lived. When he showed her this image he grew angry. Sandry new what it meant. It was his murderer. Sandry was going to show the same mercy to this woman that she had to her uncle and she would hunt her to the ends of the earth she promised her uncle's soul. Sandry's night was filled with nightmares and she was lost in a sea of loneliness. Briar, Daja, and Tris felt her pain through their contacts and felt her stranded in that sea of loneliness so far away. They brought her home from grief to at least a dreamless rest, the most they could give her.