"There shan't be a day when I don't bring you a new one, Mama." She smiles, and strokes a tendril of Eva's hair forward, so she can play with it. "But it's a long time away. Come - come, happy thoughts now, Mama. We are alive and together, with no arena to bother us. Come. Let us have a lovely day."

She kisses Eva on the cheek. "I am not going back to sleep. There are too many people who haunt my dreams."