27 Comfort Within The Dark (1/2)
Fan Ying and Nuwa Yenay woke up to their daughter screaming. They both bolted up and ran to her room.
”NO! NO! NO! NO! PLEASE. STOP!”
”Help! No. no. no. no. NO!
Why won't anybody help? Why won't anybody care!
Why won't anybody love me!?
She kicked and pushed but it was only met with air. She was struggling with something but they didn't know what.
They watched as their daughter screamed and begged but they didn't know how to respond.
Nuwa Yenay sat by their daughters side. She took hold of her daughters hand but it was pushed away.
”You don't love me!”
”I love but no one loves back.”
Her screams fell to whispers and her whispers turned to weeps.
”I'm scared! Why doesn't anyone save me?”
Both spectators stood frozen in shock. Before they hugged her and cried.
”We do love you. Daiyu don't cry. Shhh.”
But no matter how they tried to hold her and comfort her she would struggle and cry.
”Lies. Love doesn't exist.”
”We live for something nonexistent only to be disappointed in the end.”
”Even father doesn't want me.”
”The man…. Mean man…”
Both parents burst out in tears trying to calm their child but it all seemed futile.
”What are we going to do? She was to affected by that man.”
Nuwa Yenay cried without knowing that the ma she was talking about was a completely different person. The couple comforted each other and stayed by their daughter's side.
Throughout the night neither slept. They took their daughter to Lilian's home but she had already gone out of town. They could only leave.
As they walked home with the two servants and their daughter, they passed by the physicians execution.
They walked up to him and Fan Ying lost control. He threw punches at the man who already looked like a corpse. The masses were confused by their passive general's outburst.
They began to question him.
”The poor man is going to die already! WHY ARE YOU MAKING IT WORSE?”
”YEAH! WHAT KIND OF GENERAL ARE YOU!”
He turned and his vicious glare send shivers down their spines but no one retreated. He couldn't do anything to innocent citizens.
He looked at him all before shouting, ”What kind of general am I? I'm the kind of general that love his daughter. I'M NO HERE AS A GENERAL BUT AS THE FATHER OF MY CHILD WHO IS SUFFERING FROM ATRAUMA CAUSED BY THIS MAN AND HASN'T WOKEN UP SINCE YESTERDAY BECAUSE HE TRIGGERED IT AGAIN. SHE WAS SCREAMING AND KICKING THE AIR AT NIGHT AND SHE DIDN'T EVEN WAKE UP TO EAT.
HOW DARE YOU ASK WHAT KIND OF GENERAL I AM WHEN MY DAUGHTER IS SUFFERING BEACAUSE OF THIS BASTARD!? WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE TO CRITISIZE ME!”
He hit the physician repeatedly before being separated from him by multiple guards. The crown just stared in silence at their kind general becoming a pained beast for his daughter. They all turned to Nuwa Yenay who had been watching in tears everything that her husband had been doing.
In front of others, she always seemed so strong but today that perfect couple looked so tired, angry, and pained. The peeked at the child that had captured their hearts with her innocence and beauty in just a few days struggling in her mother's arms. She was crying so softly that is was barely audible. She looked pale and weak as her murmurs became louder and louder.
”No. no. take away the light!”