The sudden gathering of the mylik bats were a sign that evil was about to be born that night.
Travelling from the Mylik cave, thousands of miles away was a sign that all was not well no matter how hard I tried to pretend.
A sad reality!
It was worst when the entire labour room grew quiet after I pushed out Kayla in severe pains.
The nurse who brought her to me shivered as she approached me with Kayla wrapped in a little white clothe.
She didn't cry at all and it bothered me. I couldn't wait to hold her in my arms but my sudden emotion of joy and relief changed after the nurse gave her over to me.
I could feel my blood freeze in my veins and my heart beat slow down on holding her.
She looked at me with so much innocence, yes she did. Her eyes were widely opened and somehow I knew I was done.
Her red eyes did not only tell that something was wrong, it was an indication of a new season of awful events. Something every pregnant woman prayed against.
While the nurses remained quiet in fear, the Mylik bats broke through the window and hovered over Kayla's little body.
Then it happened, the first drop of blood spilled into her mouth and she opened up for more. One of the bats killed another for Kayla, her first "milk".
"Can you keep this a secret?" I asked with a shaky voice and a dry throat as I looked up at the nurses but no one responded.
"How do you expect us to hide her?" The lady who seemed to head the nurses replied. From the way she spoke, it was obvious she was so afraid too.
Not afraid of me, but afraid of who I had birth and what a child who was barely a day old could do.
"She shouldn't be among the humans." One of the nurses screamed at the top of her voice as she tried to run out of the room.
I wish she didn't, maybe she would have lived longer.
No Kayla didn't kill her, one of her minions did. They had come to honor her at her birth. As it was a tradition for her kind.
A manjot born out of human blood.
Not only did Kayla's birth mark the beginning of another Mylik's reign in Dryville, it was another beginning of terror.
Image source: When I was in college.
