10 Star Hatch (1/2)

”Fan Daiyu. That's her name.”

Lilian Dalai smiled at Nuwa Yenay's response. She led them to a room full of bottles of medicine, pills, elixirs, and poisons. She laid down a blanket on the table and made sure Fan Daiyu was comfortable. She began examining the baby but nothing seemed wrong. She looked physically all right. Lilian Dalai looked at the baby laying in agony with her eyelids shut tightly.

[Maybe something is wrong with her eyes. There could be many possibilities but I would only be able to understand after doing a full body check. Maybe her eyes will show some symptoms or strange occurrence.]

”Hold her eyes open”

She ordered the couple but they didn't move. They were unsure of using such forceful methods on a child. What if she got hurt because of them? What if they accidentally put too much force in their fingers and damage her beautiful eyes.

They were afraid to hurt their own treasure.

Meanwhile, Fan Daiyu was pulled back into the obscurity. For some reason the creature of darkness seemed in a rush.

It opened its many mouths and whispered a dark secret to her.

”How do you feel living in another person's body?

Huh, didn't you know? You took the body of their child. You haven't really been reborn. Do you actually believe in that? We only said that to convince you to be our ruler. You have the cruel ability to possess a host for your soul and kill the former body's resident.

You can kill souls. Your fate is to be our Queen.

The Queen of Darkness.

The Queen fated to Despair.”

”NO! It CAN'T be true. It just can't.”

Her eyes widened in shock and despair. Her eyes had been with swirling pools of madness and guilt towards the child and her parents.

Seeing its plan was working, the million voices united to form one huge shadow. It smiled cruelly and released dark gases of chaos from its mouth.

”Did you really think you died? HAHAHAHAHA!

NO!

Your soul was too strong for death. You just left your previous body only to inhabit another one, a better one. You are like us. Come let us unite, my queen!”

She dazedly slowly walked towards the shadow but before taking the last step to it, something made her entire body tremble.

”NO! We were so close!”

The shadow shouted in anger and scurried away without a second thought.

A while later a familiar voice sounded out once again and brought Daiyu out of her daze.

”Help me open her eyes”

Lilian's impatient voice resounded across the room.

Fan Daiyu managed to understand what was said over all her pain and thoughts. She forcefully opened her sad eyes.

Lilian gasped at the enthralling view. Those innocent, watery eyes were pleading for help. They were strange and enthralling but… they were fine?

She couldn't understand what was happening. The child was physically fine. She seemed to be psychologically sane and intellectually above others.

It seemed more like she was living a trauma or nightmare.

But that was impossible for a newborn. Wasn't it?

She couldn't help but ask, ”Did she have a… nightmare?”

They surprised her by hastily nodding and describing the events that had happened the night in with she was born.

[How strange? Was it something that was a result from something that happened in the womb or during her birth?]

She could only explain the little bits and pieces of what she knew to the couple. They sighed in relief knowing she wasn't sick but were still worried for her psychological health.

”When she was having her nightmare, how did you calm her?”

Fan Ying looked at his wife and she stepped forward.

”I sang her a song.”