Dead In Sleep

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It was April 2012 when one of my father's sister(my aunt) brought her 6 years old girl, Cynthia, to spend two weeks holiday with us in the village. That day, my female siblings on same age with her felt excited because they've gotten an City sister to boast to their friends.
I was excited too but I knew that the level of disturbance would increase.m as well.

Time was around 7:00pm day when we took our dinner and everyone departed to the various cliques for gist, TV, play and phones.

Time got to 9;00pm and it's expected that everyone should return from wherever they were and filled in their spaces for bedtime. Everyone came out from their playground except Cynthia.

My mom got curious and told one of my siblings to search for her and after 10mins of searching around the house, they couldn't find her. That was when a slight alarm was raised and it drew my attentions from my room.

I came out and joined the search and it didn't take up to 5mins when we found her resting her body beside the extreme corner of the sofa. She was deep asleep, so we tried to wake her up but hell no, she refused to wake up.
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So I assumed that she had really gone to the deepest part of dreamland, and then carried her to her bed space.

When I dropped her, she sluggishly fell off like someone that was dead. I quickly called my mom to examine her because it looks like the sleep was not ordinary.
That was the moment my moment noticed that she's no longer breathing.

Jeeez!

We began to run helterskelter, my dad quickly went to the packing space to drag out his motorcycle so we would take her to the hospital, while I, at the other end has gone to my room to bring anointing oil.

I was applying the anointing oil on her body and praying while my dad rushed in, pushed me off and told my mom to carry her as she follow him to the bike parked outside.

My mum quickly obeyed and zoomed off to spot that the bike was parked.

As they were about to drive out of the compound Cynthia sneezed.
"Honey, hold on, she's alive" my mum said to my dad as she taps him on his shoulder..

My dad turned off the bike and to his surprise, he saw Cynthia awake, looking like nothing happened.

We all got amazed at the scene as we just witnessed a resurrection from dead.

My dad got relaxed and calm a bit, he picked up his phone and called his sister (Cynthia's mom) to tell her what just happened and all that came out from Cynthia's mom was "that's how she is, we've gotten used to it." My dad became surprised upon hearing that.

They talked at length and when they were done talking. My dad related to us, all that Cynthia's mom said about Cynthia.

According to her, Cynthia is connected to the marine kingdom which she gets regular visitation by her colleagues from the kingdom, and this visitation occurs at night. She said also that they met a prophet, and he told them that the visitation would stop once she turned 10 years old and she'd be normal again.

So, that's why they've been relaxed with the drama馃槩.


After that night, it just happened only once before she returned back to live with her mother.

... IT'S FICTIONAL
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Dead In Sleep | Ecency