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“Really? If I remember correctly, you told me you didn’t feel like he was safe in my care. You all but ran me out.”
“That is not how it happened and you know it.”
Devon watched as a woman appeared in front of his father.
She was beautiful, her hair long and blonde, the light making it glow like a halo around her. Her eyes were a hazel color, and she seemed to be as interested in seeing Devon as he was her, though her eyes held something unforgiving.
Something about her drove a spike of fear through his young mind that he could not understand and made him move a little closer to his father.
“Hello, Devon. I am your mother.” She smiled, but all he could see in his mind was a monster
that was going to devour him. He imagined her with sharp teeth and reptilian eyes.
Scared, he closed his eyes and made a sobbing noise into the fabric of his father’s pants as he
wrapped his tiny arms around his father’s leg.
A moment later, he found the courage to look at her again, but she looked as she did before, with human teeth and human eyes. His child like mind imaging the monster he had thought was in front of him.
“Enough, Cybil, please leave. You’ve obviously stopped taking your medication and you need to go home. Don’t scare the boy.” His father’s words were a plea, but his tone was demanding, allowing no argument.
“Mama?” Devon asked as he moved around his father and felt his father’s hand clamp down
on his shoulder. He gathered all his courage to address the woman, his tiny body trembling.
“Devon.” His dad got down to eye level with him as he spoke in their native tongue to explain it to him. “Yes, that is your mother, but she is sick. Not everything she says is true, and you need to be careful when you listen to her words. Never speak with her alone. Promise?” His dad looked so worried that Devon became even more concerned.
He finally nodded and watched a tiny fraction of relief come across his father’s face, which
was immediately removed by the woman claiming to be his mother.
She was quick, one second several feet away, the next up in his face shoving his father back from him after catching them both off guard.
“Boy, you need to listen to me. No one is as they seem! Monsters look like us, I have seen
them! As I carried you in my belly, I could see them all!”
She shook him as he tried to scramble away. Her eyes looked glassy, like she wasn’t even really
there in front of him.
“He is lying to you! You cannot allow him to hurt you. He is not done and though you may try, he will win. He will! When he does, you must choose! Choose the dark and not the water! The water flows. You may stand there, but it will go around you. Fate is not to be stopped. Life and water will continue to flow, but death is forever, and it is your only chance to keep him from his power. Promise!”
“Cybil!” His father tried to grab Devon from her, but she dug her nails into his skin, making him bleed and terrifying him. Unable to control it, Devon felt the warm liquid in his pants and cried from fear and embarrassment. The confusion overwhelmed him.
He was too scared to move but too scared to stay.
“Don’t become a monster, too! I felt your power in my belly! Your father wants to believe it is not real, but you need to pick a path, death or life! You must kill the other monsters. If you die, you cannot join them!” she yelled, her voice caused a flurry of birds to take to the sky. His father finally got a good hold and he ripped Devon from his mother’s hands. Her fingers tore at his shoulders as she shouted ‘demon’ over and over again at him.
Demon. Devon. Demon. Devon.
Devon blinked and was back in the present.
He was no longer sitting quietly at the table and people watching anymore. In fact, everyone was watching him as he stood in the middle of the patio, breathing heavily, his heart pounding so loud he could hear it perfectly as if someone were playing a drum right next to his head.
He looked down and noticed that he had shadows wrapped around his wrists as if he were being shackled.
The table was overturned, glasses broken, and food strewn across the ground.
