The beach is interrupted by a sharp pain in the man's back, he screams, arching it. In that one, excruciating moment he sees a man, stick a knife in his back, then the darkness comes to envelope him again.
When his focus, comes back, he is standing in his bedroom. He breathes in the familiar scent of his wife, of warmth, and looks for her. Instead, he sees a small raven-headed, chubby cheeked girl wearing his wife's nightgown. She stares at herself in the mirror, then turns to face him.
"Am I boo-ful, daddy?" He studies her for a moment, ruby lipstick smeared all over her face, over the night gown, all over her hands.
"Yes dear, you are." He murmurs, then takes his handkerchief and kneels down in front of his eldest daughter. "But even more so without this." He wipes away the red, as she protests. "Now," He stated with finality, "You are beautiful." She frowns, and walks back to the mirror, grabs the lipstick, and starts again. He shakes his head and reaches out to stop her, but his hands pass right threw her. She grows up, right before his eyes, from a chubby little 3 year old to a beautiful young woman, black hair dancing behind her as she watches her siblings play in the waves. At the same time, father and daughter shake their heads and sigh. He hears a rumbling sound, and again speaks to a child who apparently can't hear him, with a beast that really shouldn't be talking.
Father: My little girl
Aslan: My little queen
Father: So pretty
Aslan: So graceful
Father: It's a pity
Aslan: It's so shameful
Together: That's all you think there is to life
Father: Always the mature one
Aslan: Always the proud one
Father:Can't you see?
Aslan:There's more to you than beauty
Father: You're wise
Aslan: You love surprise
Father: Belive in what you cannot see
Aslan: Trust in what can never be
Father: Enjoy life now
Aslan: Don't grow to fast
Father: The future will come
Aslan: And you'll long for some
Together: Peace and youth
Father: Never forget
Aslan: Never forget
Together:To live, to love
Father: To believe
The man reaches out to touch his daughter's raven hair, but she turns and walks away, leaving her brothers and sisters to their childish games.
