Chapter 15 - The Ark Of Crying (1/2)

”That isn't bravery, lil' Mav,” replied Baldwin, smiling.

He then brought the child up to his height, giving her little nose rub using his nose. The child giggled with happiness.

”It's called being a father.”

Mavislin laughed at the reply. This made Baldwin's heart flutter even more. Holding the child like this, even if she was not his own... It felt like a thousand years have passed since he could hold someone like that.

That laugh was the same as Abi's while she was alive. That smile caused the Angry Man to crumbled in his heart.

”But guess what? You are the bravest little girl I know,” said Baldwin, causing the Valkyrie to tilt her head in confusion.

”Going through what any child would break from. Would suffer from. You stood up to the conflict. You'd said enough is enough. You wanted to change, you wanted justice. Even if, you are just a child.”

”But, you don't allow me to...” murmured Mavislin, hugging the star.

”Would you be able to?” asked Baldwin, his expression darkening.

”Be able to?” asked the little Mavislin.

”Be able to take a life? To kill?”

The child's eyes had a shimmer of despair once she had heard the word 'kill'. She had seen others doing it and even her family had done it. When she looked at others doing it, it seemed so easy. Perhaps it was, she could not tell.

Her memories began to flood back. A bright light appeared. She chanted a spell... The last thing she knew was that she was the one who ended the war. That chant, that powerful spell... No other Valkyrie could do it but her.

”Oh, Susanna. Now, don't you cry for me...”

Those few words echoed throughout her little fuzzy mind. Where did she hear that song from? Was it from her parents?

She remembered fairly little of the end, but she knew something was wrong. That she had killed too. That those tiny little hands of hers had been stained with the blood of her kind. She didn't want that title. She didn't want to be known as the one who killed everyone.