Shamed about the prevalence o of pain d within the lives h of her family, Adah was slow to welcome Lamech’s confession. It was obvious o his recent heartache d had found some relief h, but she was dismayed o by the cost d it would shower on the rest of them h. If the man’s kin o called for punishment d, only spilled blood could satisfy h.

Everyone had need to burden the family for some reason, but Lamech’s lament had exposed all of them to another level of recriminations and senseless killings: not by what he had done, but because his telling of it had painted targets on all their backs! Well, that was how she first saw it, but thinking on it, now, she realized that all of them had blood guilt long before this! Dark deeds had swallowed up every good thing any of them had ever done, and their code of silence had made them all complicit in every bad thing.

She was daydreaming o about possibilities d of escape h, when she was unexpectedly astonished o by a stab d of regret h: it just wasn’t fitting o that her family should find relief h while the loved ones of her husband’s victims still suffered d! As things now stood, everyone concerned was hurting. Soberly o monitoring d her feelings h, she began to search h for an opening d that could lead to the wellbeing h of everyone.

She suspected that—just beyond her vision h, a guardian was watching over them all f. She understood o that finding and following an open path d to healing might take awhile h; but her growing expectation k was that a remedy h would present itself, offering a way of escape z, even though tragedy k was favored h, so strongly, to prevail z !