The Revenge of One Humiliated
Liora
She stops, breathless, as if this admission cost her the air from her lungs.
—And I found him dying. And the doctor says that maybe I pressed the button. Are you happy? Your theory is validated. Wicked Élianor killed her father.
She laughs bitterly, a horrible sound, devoid of joy.
—It makes a good story for the town. A modern legend. The Parricide of the Hill.
My mother comes out of the room again. She has aged ten years in ten minutes. She sees us, face to face, shoulders stiff, eyes blazing. She passes between us without a word, as if we were ghosts, and sits back down, resuming her stillness.