Book 3: The Love of Fire & Rain

Chapter 9: Atlanta's lullaby

Atlanta tried to compose herself but failed. 'What have I done?' She sobbed in despair and Abram began to cry harder.

"Oh my little darling...It's alright mommy and daddy still love each other...just like we love you and your brothers..."

Her voice soothed Abram as he sucked on his little fist. Atlanta smiled as she fed her hungry little baby while cradling him in her arms. She gazed at him and said. "You have your daddy's ears..." She chuckled. "You even have his nose...I do love his nose..." Silent tears fell from her eyes as she cried over what she had said to her husband over the past few days and weeks.

"Oh Inferno...What have I done?"

Atlanta suddenly knew what she had to do so she stood up with Abram in tow, vanished in a cloud of hot steam towards Alaska where she knew Airis was, and reappeared at Alaska's majestic Lake Clarke. Airis was busy watching the Aurora Borealis after tending to the affairs of a caribou migration while Endor spent the day playing with their own nineteen sons back in Scotland. She smiled into a sigh when Atlanta suddenly appeared beside her. Airis gasped in shock when she saw the state that her friend was in, Atlanta looked like a sobbing wreck.

"Atlanta! Dearie what on earth are you doing here?"

"Airis no time to explain follow me please I still need Lunaria's help."

"What, Atlanta wait!"

Atlanta left before Airis could stop her and with an annoyed grumble and a sigh Airis left
after her. Of course, Airis new exactly where Atlanta was heading to next and that was Lunaria's secondary home in the wilds of Canada. Lunaria's official home was in the Garden Temple of Mount Olympus in Greece, but that was only when Inferno's brother Solaris was giving light to that half of the globe while staying in the Sahara.

Lunaria's secondary home away from home is in the beautiful region of what would become later known in the passing centuries as the Yoho National Park. This region lies in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.

Lunaria's majestic tree house home is secluded by marvelous mountains peaks, vast winding rivers, tranquil flowing waterfalls, clear lakes and wide-open meadows with wildflowers. Inside the one room, second story of the hidden treetop home Lunaria smiled as she watched her two nephews sleeping peacefully in her large silver bed.

"Sweet dreams you two..."

She stood up and silently walked down the spiral staircase that wrapped around the tree that went through the middle of her home. She entered into the open layout of the downstairs of her secondary home and walked over to the opposite end of the room to the large open window where a hanging hammock was and lounged in it. She was listening to the sounds of the many wind chimes blowing peacefully in the breeze. Hundreds upon thousands of wind chimes that she had strung up along the branches of the tree. Suddenly the wind chimes ceased with their musical tunes as the bond she had with her sister Atlanta kicked in within the confines of her mind.

"Luna! Lunaria please open up!" Atlanta shouted as she softly yet firmly knocked on the door while in the verge of tears.

"Atlanta?" Lunaria fell out of the hammock in shock hitting the ground with a loud thud. Atlanta was standing on the porch deck; a good sixty-eight feet high from the ground, which was connected to a spiral staircase descending the tree. She heard the loud thud and the scolding grumbling from her sister inside. Lunaria stood up as quickly as she fell, ran over, and opened the barrel arched door to find her sister standing there with little baby Abram in her arms in a sobbing wreck!

"Atlanta calm down!" Lunaria had her hands placed firmly upon her sisters shoulders as Atlanta still held Abram in her arms while crying in despair. That was when a gust of wind blew past and Airis appeared literally out of thin air and said.