someone to watch over you...

..."everyone has a guardian angel" duchess was fond of saying. She knew this to be a fact, having one of her own. She saw, heard and felt her angel... glimpsing out of the corner of an eye, a shadow next to her own...hearing the feathery stroke of a wing unsettling the air around her...feeling the all-encompasssing warmth of wings enfolding her as she lay down and slept...