BLOOD and a BEAST

Lullaby

Chapter 1

Lullaby

    A scream could be heard though out an old run down house. This scream was that of a child, a child that had just woken up from a terrible nightmare. This child was afraid, afraid that the nightmare was real and not just a dream. The small frail child sat up in its bed and cried. The child didn’t hear the door open or had felt someone place themselves on its bed.

    “My dear child what is it that troubles you so? Why do you scream and weep?” An angel like voice said.

    The child looked up to the stranger and noticed that it wasn’t a stranger, but its own mother. The child went and hugged its mother tightly, to make sure that she was real and would not leave. The mother held her child in her arms trying to silence it and make the troubles go away. Once the child had calmed down to small hiccups the mother asked, “Now my angel, what troubles you so?”

    The child was still shaken up and couldn’t form a single word. The child took a shaky breath to calm its nerves. Then spoke in a shaken voice, “Mother, *Sniffle* … I h-had a b-b-bad dream.”

    “What happened in this bad dream of yours dear” asked of the mother?

    “I-i d-dreamed t-that you … D-died” the child whispered.

    After the child had told the mother what happened in its nightmare, the child started to weep once more. The mother held her child tighter to herself; she knew that her child’s dream was not a dream. Instead it was a small vision of the future and what was to come.

    The mother started to speak once more as she wiped her child’s tears away, “My child. Listen to these words I am about to tell you. I love you and always will, even if some day I do pass on to the next world. I want you to know that I’m always with you through the moon, the stars, and also I will be in your heart,” the mother pointed her finger to the child’s heart, “When you feel sad or feel alone look to the night sky, and remember that you are never alone, no matter what has happened.”

    The child looks to its mother and listened to every word of wisdom and nodded its head in understanding. The child was very smart and knew to never forget its mother’s words. It would always remember the words and would pass it on to anyone who was willing to listen.

    “Mother will you sing to me” the child pleaded?

    The mother looked down at her child and smiled, “Of course I will. What song would you like?”

    “C-can you sing me the lullaby, please?”

    “Of course my child.” The mother moved into the bed more, so that her and the child where lying side by side. She started to sing,

“Little baby,

Hear my voice