in this desert, how we blossom and we cease

'She tries to be strong, for Kim. It is easier to stay awake and wait for Kim's nightmares, than to fall asleep and have her own – the knife biting into her throat, the tang of her own blood in her mouth, the sour breath in her face, the terrible images her mind had conjured of what might have become of her daughter.' Lenore Mills rebuilds, post 'Taken 2.'