Claire took two steps into the room and stopped next to Sarah’s chair.

“Where’s she going to stay?” Claire asked.

“Her mother’s sister, Ruth, lives on a quiet street up in Peoria,” Sarah said.

Sarah picked up a legal document stamped with a red court seal and passed it to Claire.

“Ruth signed the permanent guardianship papers just this afternoon,” Sarah added.

Emily looked up from her gray stuffed rabbit, her soft breaths hardly making a sound in the room.

“Is my father going to come to the new house?” Emily asked quietly.