Newborn
"Benjamin, it's fine. He's fine," Amun assured Benjamin, who is currently sitting amidst the icy pathway.
He looked up from his hands and asked, "It's a he?"
Amun nodded and Benjamin sighed in relief. He was very much eased that Amun was the one to help give birth to the child and that it was over. He was also ashamed of not being able to cope with Lara's giving of birth, hence the blood.
"Go inside," Amun emboldened and Benjamin's face showed disbelief.
"You want me to go there?" he said skeptically. "How can you even let me?"
"You won't hurt her. I am sure of it. Don't ask me how I know, just go," he added, prodding his friend towards the open door.
"If I kill her, make sure to kill me," he muttered while walking ahead.
Despite the bluntness, Amun grinned at Benjamin's back and said, "Oh, I wouldn't be the one doing the deed."
He continued to amble forward until he reached the entrance.
"You're so stunning," whispered Lara to her silently whimpering son. She was still oblivious to Benjamin's presence, though not for long.
"What's his name?" he asked, standing rigidly at the doorframe.
Lara deliberated for a moment before answering, smiling down at her newborn child.
"Nicolai. I'll name him Nicolai."
"Suitable choice; it means one who is victorious."
"I guess we'll find out," she breathed absently.
For several minutes, he just watched her and Nicolai sleeping in her arms. He was not tempted to drink her blood --- he wasn't even thinking of it. He merely watched.
"Amun, is it pity that I feel?" Benjamin asked him after he resurfaced from the glacial footpath and into the base of the hole, still hundreds of feet below, though distant from the room.
"It isn't," Amun replied, "Pity is caused by sadness, which is far from what Lara is feeling right now."
"I doubted myself. I wasn't completely sure if I was able to cope being in the same space with two breathing people."
"Then you should give yourself more credence. Ask yourself: did I feel pity for Lara and her child or myself? Benjamin, I gave you a chance to prove that you can overcome your thirst and you did. Isn't that proof enough for yourself?"
Benjamin was silent for a solid minute, redeeming himself. Finally, he spoke.
"I suppose," was all he said and that was enough for both of them.
Amun returned to Lara and Nicolai while Benjamin leaped from his stance and soon stood at the edge of the aperture. He then ambled towards the newly formed setting due south. It was the setting he created with his abilities to impel all four elements not too long ago.
Its circumference was not at all substantial, but it still was a decent size. The new setting seemed like a vast hole in the middle of the ice but if one looks down, the damaged trees and brick buildings will be visible, even though they are hundreds of meters underneath. Nonetheless, it is a good beginning and it will improve.
Benjamin walked pass his making and retrieved his pencil and journal, thinking of only what happened a while ago.
I do not want to be a monster once this world is revived. I never want to kill an innocent. Therefore, I shall find another way to live once everything is back to the way Earth should be.
As he wrote this, he recalled an ideal he heard from his old acquaintances. Now he found a solution.
I will follow the Cullens' ways.
Short? Very, but at least I'm updating =)
As exciting as the other ones? Not so much…
I hope you guys will still stick with me till the end!! (which I am still undecided about).
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