Short and sweet

I slid into bed after lighting the candle on my nightstand. Adjusting my long tangled brown hair around my head, I pulled my bed covers up further. I fell into yet another nightmare.

Belladonna had busied herself by tidying up the sitting room and kitchen after Ayla went to bed. She had tucked in her little girl after saying goodnight to Bilbo. They both had reached maturity but Belladonna treasured her children dearly! They were her life. Belladonna now sported a head of grey hair and a few wrinkles on her face. Her hands had become bony and she had thinned out. But she was still a young spunctious Hobbit at heart and her health was still in good shape.

With a book plopped open on her leg and a cup of tea sitting near the chair, Belladonna decided reading a couple chapters of a good book sounded nice before bed.

Belladonna wasn't sure how much time had passed before her ears picked up a pair of hurried footsteps pattering across the floor. Belladonna looked up from her book to find her son, Bilbo, running up to her, a terrified look on his face.

"What's wrong darling?" Her brown eyes were full of concern.

"Lyrian." Bilbo cried. "Lyrian is having a nightmare. Her moans woke me up. At first I thought maybe I was hearing things, but Lyrian's moans came through the wall again."

Belladonna snapped her book shut and quickly made her way to Ayla's room. Or in this case, Lyrian's room, as Belladonna and her late husband Bungo adopted her when she was ten.

Belladonna was all sorts of worried as she entered the bedroom at the end of the hall. Her baby had lost her parents when she was ten. Her baby had lost her birth mother when she was six. And lately, her baby had been having nightmares.

Sure enough, Belladonna heard whimpering and crying when she entered the bedroom that belonged to her baby girl. Belladonna caught sight of tears running down Lyrian's face as she made her way over to perch on the bed.

Lyrian's eyes suddenly snapped open after another hour.

Lyrian

I wake up sitting bolt right up in bed, screaming and crying! My breathing is ragged. I feel a pair of arms wrap around me and hear a sweet gentle voice soothe me. "Sshhh, Darling. I'm here sweet girl."

My Hobbit mother comes into view when I turn my head to look at who is holding me. My arms automatically wrap around her and I sob!

I just wailed because I could do nothing else! I had gained a wonderful mother and father, but only at the cost of loosing my parents!

"Mother and father are dead! They died after giving me up!"

"I know Darling. Sshhh, Darling. I'm here sweet girl." Belladonna gently soothed me.

I have never wept so hard in my entire life!

I wept while 'Amad held me. I wept until all of my tears were shed! I wept until I finally grew so tired, 'Amad helped tuck me back in.

I let out a heavy, shaky sigh while 'Amad ran her slender fingers along my scalp through my hair until my body and brain shut down. My eyes finally closed.

"You can tell me everything tomorrow, Darling." 'Amad's gentle voice soothed me like a balm to a very bad wound before I fell asleep again.


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