A BIRD'S SONG

PROLOGUE

      "Orion! Orion!!" Usylva called out as she frantically searched for her seven year old brother. No one seemed to mind her so she completely ignored them and kept walking till she reached the stables and found him glaring hard at the princess. Infuriated, she stormed to where they were, grabbed Orion by his ear and drew him all the way to their little cottage home a somewhat long distance from the castle despite his whining. When they reached the little parlor, she abruptly released his ear making him yelp in pain.
     "Owww!!"
     "Why were you glaring at the king's daughter? Tell me Orion, why?" She asked him. She was angry and he knew that well.
      "She said mama and papa will never come back to us. She said I was living in a fool's paradise and I was angry. You don't smile at people when you're angry at them. You glare at them. You taught me that." He pointed. At this point, Usylva sank into one of the three chairs in the parlor. All her pent up anger and frustration melted into tears. She sniffed as the tears rolled down her cheeks. Orion became confused.
     "Why do you cry?" He worriedly asked cleaning her cheeks. Usylva placed her hands on his shoulders.
     "It is indeed time I explained to you how the world really works." She sniffed again. "Mama and Papa are never coming back. They're dead and they are in heaven watching over us."
     "We will never see them again?"
Usylva slowly nodded. "Yea, Orion. But we will see then when we get to heaven. They wish us to be happy until then."
     "I want to go to heaven." Orion said.
     "The only way you can go to heaven is if you die, Orion. Do you wish to die?"
     "Yea." Came his blunt response.