Chapter 54 Anxiety Turns to Real Fear

Damian ran down the stairs jumping two steps at a time. The fear that told him to run was his old acquaintance. A fear that told him that someone important to him could be gone at any moment - gone forever.

His mother had been ill for as long as he could remember, but she always tried to give the impression that she was better than she actually was. She did not want to upset her family. Besides, in those days there was no chance for her to get better, so she wanted neither to pity those close to her, nor build hope in them, nor frighten them with the worst. Therefore she endured her suffering, her pain, alone. Until one day she simply lost consciousness while working.

Her health got much worse when Damian was in his first year of high school. It worsened so much that it was then that Damian first began to realize his mother's mortality, and it was not a good feeling. It was a feeling that caused vivid fear.

His mother's condition had deteriorated so much that ev