Issues.~ a crow duo sibling story {Ira and Saphora}

Bee. ~chapter eight

Ira was fiddling with the ends of their gown when a flash summoned, the alarm of a person coming through the portal of realm and afterlife.

Ira looked up and saw not a fairy. Not a human. Not even an elf. A child.

It didn't matter weather they were an elf cub or a human child. They were just a child.

Ira scanned the child with their eyes. Noting everything about them.

Golden eyes, chestnut brown hair, light freckles, light skin, small nose.

The kid looked so much like someone Ira had seen before. They looked like..Ira. Ira when they were a kid. Ira when they were cheated out of a childhood.

The child's eyes welled up with tears and only then did Ira realize the child's tear stained face.

"W-where am I?..who-who are you?" The child said urgently.

"Hey, hey you're okay. You're safe now"
Ira kneeled before the child and put their glowing hand on the child's face. They seemed to have calmed down.

"I'm Ira..mind telling me your name?"

"B-bee.." Bee said, sniffling.

"Okay Bee..how old are you?"

"Seven..almost eight.."

Ira's heart stung. Seven..

"Okay..well, you are..dead.." Ira said. They weren't good with kids.

Bee started crying. Rightfully so.
They wouldn't stop so Ira did the only thing they weren't allowed to do. They made a promise.

"I'll send you back down. But first you have to stop crying and you have to take a few lessons on how to be a child again..okay?"

Bee, sniffling, said okay.

Ira hid Bee underneath the throne room for the time being and once midnight struck, Ira took Bee out and brought them to their room.

"I'll make you a bed"

"Hey Ira?.."

Ira looked at Bee.

"Yeah?"

"Thank you"