”Oh, we can take the kittens,” Eleanor assured her as she began getting up from the floor. The look on Charlotte’s face, however, stopped her, and rather than moving away, she squeezed herself into the chair with her sister, wrapping a protective arm around her shoulders.
“Shh,” she shushed gently. “You don’t have to do anything right now. We can just sit here for a bit, and then once you’ve slept, we’ll figure out what to do, okay?”