A Mother's Lament

[ThatWeirdGirl 432]

His body was so tiny in the massive woman’s arms, a smile daring to crawl across her ugly face, warmth blooming in her sunken in eyes like flowers come spring. The babe she cradled to her breast slept as he usually did, a placid expression on his chubby face.

 

The wind howled outside, branches clawing wrathfully at the windows. But inside she held the boy close, and he was safe as she cradled him to her chest. The fireplace crackled invitingly, and the sound of conversation drifted from the floor above.

 

All was calm.

 

All was chaos.

 

It was as if the storm from the night before had come inside, burrowed deep into the foul faced high elf’s chest. The sound of thunder was replaced by the sounds of splintering wood. The wind had become a mass of flesh and muscle, screaming in a horrific mix of pain and rage.

 

The child she had before was gone, maybe held to the breast of another woman. A thief who had taken her precious boy, her love. Her heart. The thought flashed through her mind like lightning, did she love her son too now that she had him?

 

The fire had burned out, and the high elven woman nearly tore the half door off it’s hinges as she shoved her way into the manor’s bar.

 

Burning liquid sloshed down her throat.

[Kaelan 1918]

The chaos that ensued would stir Alasdair on the upper floors of the manor where he resided. A soft groan escaped his lips as blue eyes fluttered open to stare up at the ceiling. “I had just gotten to sleep,” the man would mumble to himself as he righted and rose to his feet to dress.

Upon making his way downstairs, his gaze setting upon the woman, his brows would furrow. He would not call out to her, or bother to make his presence known. Instead, he would grab at a helmet that rested nearby and push his way through the front doors of the manor. “I’m not dealing with anymore of this stupid drama between these elves,” the man grumbles as he continues into the forest, the view of the manor slowly becoming more obscured with each step he took. 

 

[osumanduas 1442]

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