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... ailed as a husband. As a father.

And now, I had failed as a person.

I lay there, unable to move, unable to do anything but listen.

People came and went. She asked, begging them to take her. But none did.

She was too thin, too tired-looking, just another broken woman in a city that had no use for broken things.

Not even for a few coppers, the price of a cheap meal at an inn.

I almost smiled at that.

Happy that no one would touch her.

...

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