Where is the star I was given?

Such a energy taking task it was to brush her mothers hair. Her mother, in the Mental Ward of St. Mungo's, was looked after by the nurses now. Her strong mother wasn't so strong- she collapsed under the death of father. "Does no one bother to brush your hair?" Alannah murmured, battling with a tangle. Her mother, once dressed in elegant gowns and robes. Jewels once draped on that pale neck. Now there was just a hospital gown, hiding the figure her mother was given kindly by the heavens.

Her mother just gave a mumbled reply, her hands working at knitting. The Healers said it helped her mind stay busy, focusing on something else besides the missing male. Alannah told them it was lame, and that she needed to have the truth shoved in her face. Before all of this, her parents would have scolded her harshly for such words. Now she just had Yasha to punish her, and the young Vogel did not want his punishments.