Tarrant couldn't sleep. He lay there on his bed staring up at the celing. Then he rolled over and saw his wife, Alice, sleeping peacfuly next to him.
Korey was in the same boat. But in stead of not being able to sleep she slept in a fitfull maner. Of all the nightmares she had had in her life this was by far the worst. Tarrant heard her whimpers and went to check on her.
Koreys' Nightmare
"Lacey! Korey!" A 6-month-old Koery heard her fathers cheery voice, back before he had gone mad. Little Korey cooed weakly in her sickly mothers arms at the sight of her father as he walked over to his girls.
"'Ello luvs!" He said kissing both Korey and Lacey on their feverish cheeks.
"'E-Ello Tarrant." Lacey murmured.
"'Ow ye feelin' darlin'?" Tarrant asked his wife.
"Fine." She barley managed.
"An Lil' Kores'?"
"Beta' than me." Lacey sighed looking at her baby.
Korey reached her shakey thin pale arms up to Tarrant.
"D-Daddy." She mumbeld her first word.
Tarrant picked up the little girl and wraped her in her thick blue black and red blanket.
"An' who's tha'?" He asked her.
"Mumma?" She asked him.
"Aye, lassie." He smiled laying her in her crib.
"I'll be back soon, Luv." Tarrant whispered to his young wife kissing her for the last time and this was the last thing Korey saw of her family togather before she fell asleep.
Korey awoke to her fathers voice.
"Lacey! LACEY!" He cried holding his wifes limp form Korey cooed for her father to hold her not understanding what was happening.
"Daddy?" She asked him holding her arms up.
Tarrant let his wife cold corps slip from his arms and lay back on the bed then he covered her with the blankets.
"Hey, Kores." He sobbed, weakly trying to sound brave for his daughter, tears welled in his eyes as he picked her up.
There was only one place he knew to take his daughter for the time being while he squared way with his wifes body. The Hound Clans wing of town where Bayard and his new wife Bielle lived along with other breeds of hound like the Irishwolf Hounds and Scottishdeer Hound but the one he was going to see were the Bluetick Coonhounds.
END KOREYS' NIGHTMARE
"Korey! Korey wake up!" Korey heard a voice that sounded far off.
She then opend her eyes and uttered those same words.
"D-Daddy?" she asked into the dark where she saw his glowing green eyes.
"Aye, are ye O.K Kores'?" He asked her.
"Aye." She mumbeled sitting up on her bed while Tarrant lit a candle.
"Were ye 'avein' bad dreams again?" He asked.
"Aye. It twas 'bout Mumma." She whimpered with a bit of a bitter edge.
"I don't 'member eva' dreamin' 'bout 'er. I was only 6-months old when she died."
"Wot was th' dream 'bout?"