Alanis
It happens fast.
Father wakes Belis up first.
I watch as it happens because I have missed him. the moment my father's blood enters my brother's mouth. I watch as the veins around his eyes brighten and he shoots his eyes open. It is quick as it usually is. He sits up on the coffin and the heaviness that I have been feeling since we came here suddenly evaporates. I watch as they give him blood. Blood that he hasn't had in six years.
It is amazing that we are still alive even when we aren't.
Time stopped for him but it didn't for the rest of us.
We lived our lives, while he put a pause on his.
