Characters: Tilda, Magda
Rating: C

Disclaimer: The author makes no claim to owning the rights of anything to do with Terry Pratchett or Discworld.
     Notes: Tilda had a daughter, once. Do you remember?

Stolen
by Amazon Syren

     Tilda, my Tilda, is sobbing in my arms.
     The bastards took her baby away.
     I am careful when I hold her, her body is still bruised, and the cuts on her back are still healing.
     The father is dead. Good riddance to him, burned alive in his mill.
     But the baby...
     Tilda says that she hopes she is happy. That her life is better than ours.
     She says that her hope is a flame in the dark.
     A single candle, burning for the child that was lost, the daughter that she will never know.
     Svetcha: Our flame in the night.