Forgotten

Beginnings
Silver the Hedgehog

She lay on the hospital bed, blood ozing from her fatal, and fading body.

"KAI!" I screamed.

"It's too late...Silver...Protect your son...please...I can't protect him anymore...not in heaven...he's so young...he's not ready to die..."

She fazing into dust as the blood disappeared. My son, already advanced in self defense and speed (unlike me) at only age four, clung to my arm, puzzled and hoping for his mother to be spared of the deadly diease, though she can not be saved now.

"Dad...is Mom already in Heaven?" he questioned, wondering what was happening, exactly. At such a young age, he held the intellect of a teenager.

"Yeah...she's now an angel protecting us now..." I lied. I knew it was impossible for her soul to still be alive, but it was best for my son to believe. Maybe it is possible, only I have never seen it.

My son didn't even cry, he only glanced at me, saying, "We have to be strong. We can't dwell on the past. Her death was the past and will be remembered, but we have to move on. Right, Dad?"

I nodded.