Serenity

Iza ran from room to room. “TAI!?” She screamed, she’d been up, down, all over this maze of a mansion.

She rapidly turned the corner, her nails ripped as she’d been using them as anchors for gripping walls and doorways. She came into a room with an exceedingly large mirror and was about to keep going but then she saw it.

A lump on the ground with light brown hair much similar to her own, small horns poking out of it. “TAI!” She screamed again. She dove for the rug, the fabric coming into contact with her bare knees and it burned as she dove. She quickly gathered the small lump that was Tai into her arms and she shook him. “Tai!? Taishiro! Answer me!”

There was no response from Tai as his head limply rolled back. Iza felt her blood turn to ice, it felt as if she’d been tossed into a frozen lake. A cold sweat breaking out from her skin, as she stared at her son. Her body began trembling as she moved one of her fingers to his neck to check for a pulse.

She found one, although it weak. It was steady. A choke cry with a mix of relief and despair caught her throat and she keeled over. Crushing Tai to her chest as she began sobbing, a mournful scream ripping from her.

Iza sat back and curled her legs underneath her. She looked up from her desk and out at the window where the sun was setting underneath the mountainess area outside, blocking her view. She looked down at her paperwork and smiled a bit. She pushed herself up and went from her room before calling out to her son.  “Taishiro!” There was a moment of silence before clomping came rushing down the hall. “Mommy!” A short, chubby cheeked little boy appear and Iza opened her arms to catch the boy and lift him up and spin him around. She wouldn’t be able to do this much longer. She settled him on her hip and looked at him.

“Do you wanna go outside and play for the rest of the evening?” “Yes!”  Iza laughed at him and with that she walked down the steps with him still on her hip and headed for the door. Someone called out to her and she looked back to see two of her staff members and one of Taishiro’s caretakers coming for them.