The Decks and the Road book 1- Freeborn Chapter 7 Tayeton - It was the day of reckoning.  I didn’t know how I would hold up.  My mother gave me strength.  I didn’t assume I would be as strong without her.  I also needed to hold up Kaylin.  I was just about ready, and I could bet she would be too, but I thought to check in on her.  I crossed the hall, and stuck my head into her room.  She was praying.  I didn’t know she prayed.  I didn’t really know my mother to pray, and I myself only ever prayed sometimes in my head, but she was kneeling beside her bed.  I did notice she was all dressed, and so I thought to leave her.  Funny, even as I sat for months knowing my mother was leaving me, I hadn’t really thought to pray.  It just seemed so final; so set in stone.  I didn’t bother to eat breakfast, and I found myself just sitting on my bed now deep in thought.  All of a sudden, I wanted to pray.  The image...