Elena can shrink her body and makes herself smaller to stay hidden. One night she secretly saves a baby in a breech birth by untangling the umbilical cord, then disappears. An old man who knew her secret kills her in a garden.
She had the ability to make herself physically smaller, not metaphorically, physically. She'd been doing it so long in that lifetime, it was just reflex. Make yourself smaller, make yourself less and quieter, give people less to be afraid of. A man came to her in secret one night. His wife was in labor. Something was wrong. The baby was coming feet first, cord wrapped around his waist. Elena untangled it, guided the delivery, cut the cord, wrapped the mother, and left fast because being seen was dangerous. The last scene of that lifetime, she was in a garden. An old man came up behind her. He'd known what she was for years, and that knowledge had curdled into something he couldn't leave alone. She died from a knife wound to the back of her neck.
