23 Sensing (1/2)

Six months later at the villa in one of the neighborhoods for the rich and mighty there where a pair of mother and daughter were sitting in the living room. The daughter sat on the sofa and read a book while the mother sat at a table going through some documents.

There was a comfortable silence as they both did their own things but still spent time together. The scene seemed quite harmonious and one could feel the close bond between the two of them.

Suddenly the girl put her book down and looked towards her mother.

”Mom, how come daddy isn't living with us?”

”Huh?”, her mother looks up in surprise.

”Doesn't he love the two of us?”

The mother wasn't really sure how she should answer this question, but finally decided to tell the truth.

”To be honest, I don't think he knows you exists and he should most likely have forgotten me too.”

”Oh.”, the little girl looked down with a sad face, but the mother had no idea how she could comfort her. Luckily she soon looked up again and asked another question.

”Then could you tell me how you met him?”

”Hm, how come you are asking so many questions about him suddenly?”

The child points at the book it had read. It seems like there was something about the story which had made her ask these questions.

”Ah, ok. Then I'll tell you the story but there are a few parts I will only tell you if you are older.”

She collected her thoughts and then started to tell the story of how she had met the father of her daughter and her husband.

”At that time I was still going out adventure and we were going to a newly discovered location which was expected to have some valuable resources. Sadly after we fought our way in we had to realize that we miscalculated the level and coordination of the creatures there. We got surrounded and one member of our group fell. There wasn't really a chance for us to ever get out alive.”

Her eyes seemed to look far away as she reminisced.

”When we were sure that we wouldn't be able to survive he came. I don't even know how he looked, since we were all heavily wounded and not really able to concentrate. Anyway he came and killed all the foes at that location before taking me away.”

”Then what about the others in your party?”

”He left them, but since he killed all the monsters near them they managed to survive.”

”That's good”, the daughter said with relief. It seemed like she hoped for her father to be a nice man.

”Then what happend after he took you away?”

The mother saw her daughter look eagerly at her and couldn't help laughing.

”After that he took me to a cave where he laid me down on a bed and we did what adults do so little ones like you can be born.”

”Then why didn't you stay with him?”

”When I woke up he was already gone.”, and what she didn't tell was that she was never asked if she wanted to sleep with him or that he told her that this was his reward for saving them.

”Then he must be really strong right?”