"It's not a problem at all. It's precisely why we have the day care in the first place," Savannah assured her. "Come on, you can help the kids be tidy foxes and clean up and I'll mix up some salt dough to make some sculptures. That sounds like a fun activity."

It was devastating and her heart went out to Sam and to William, but all a body could do was forge on. It was hard, a damned marathon every day, sometimes. But you couldn't just lay down and die.

So sculpture time it was.