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Alexandria Residence, Amelia, Araius Colony: Omega XI, Infinite Sacrifice, 10/25/2018, 1730
Giggles echo across my playroom as I’m deep in my racing game. A huge grin crosses my lips as I engage the handbrake and my Lamborghini Murcielago LP640 glides around the curve and sails toward the finish line. With the second race in my sights, a knock reaches my ears. I hop up from my gaming station and waddle toward the door, “I'll get it!”
When I open the door seconds later, my eyes widen in happiness, “Mommy!” I rush toward her and soon I’m lost in a warm embrace. “Mommy, I'm so glad you could come!” I break from my close quarters and smile up at her, “So, why are you here?”
”Well, little one,” she scans my daily attire: a blue T-shirt and a racecar diaper, then leads me to the living room. “I'm here to babysit you of course.”
”Okay, Mommy!” rebounds my happy retort as we sit on the couch and I crawl into her lap. “If you're babysitting me…that means…”
As if on cue, My Oniichan and Oneesan walk into the living room, smiles on each of their faces. Once they sit down across from us, both tousle my hair before Nikoletta's voice floods our ears, “Okay, it's the usual, Mom. No staying up past 2530, and please keep the sweets to a minimum. We're going to another I.C.C.E. meeting to elect a new council member. After that, we'll be going for a well-deserved date.”
”Alright, you two, I'll make sure that Caiden is adequately cared for. You two have nothing to worry about. Go out and enjoy yourselves.”
A giggle leaves me when Nikoletta kisses my cheek. “Nighty nighty, baby brother. You’ll behave for our mother, right?”
”I always behave you guys,” I cross my arms at their accusation and pout in our mother's lap, “and I'm not a baby.”
Oniichan chuckles as he examines me, “I think that those crinkly diapers and your toddler-like behavior account for more than your statement, Caiden.”
I wag my tongue at his statement and he smiles before a white light winks into existence. Seconds later, it encompasses my elder siblings and then fades within nanoseconds, no traces left of them. I giggle with enjoyment as I shift in my mother's lap.
She smiles down at my excited form seconds afterward and pulls me into a hug. “So, little one, it would appear that we have quite a night ahead of us.”
I smile up at her when she releases me and affirm her statement with a thumbs up, “Yes we do, Mommy, yes we do!” my eyes fall to the floor then meet her seconds later, “Mommy, can I ask you a question?”
”Of course, sweetie,” she replies as she adjusts me in her lap. “What would you like to ask me?”
“Well…Mommy, why didn’t Oniichan and Oneesan believe me when I asked them about parallel universes? Why’d they just dismiss it as me not understanding you talking to me about quantum physics? I understand quantum physics perfectly, Mommy! I just don’t get why they won’t believe me. They just think I’m a little kid when it comes to stuff like that.”
She chuckles as she ruffles my hair, “Well, Caiden, you are a little kid. You are seven years old and you exhibit toddler-like behavior sometimes. However, that isn’t why they don’t believe you. They don’t believe you because they just don’t understand what quantum physics is. We both know that you understand it, you watch those documentaries with the same glint of excitement that you have when you’re racing. You’re a strange kid to say the least.”
“But, Mommy,” Whining and crinkling follow my movements as I shift in her lap, searching for a more comfortable spot. “Mommy, you didn’t answer my question. I want to know why they don’t get it. Why don’t they understand quantum physics, why?”
“Caiden, you can’t expect everyone to understand things like we do. Your older siblings don’t understand quantum physics and the enhanced theory of transcendence because their minds aren’t wired for such things.”
“So, they don’t understand what we do because their brains aren’t wired like ours. You mean like a computer that’s old and doesn’t have the hardware compatibility to run newer software and stuff like that. Is that what you mean, Mommy?”
As she rubs my ears, realization that my statement rings true hits home, “Yes, little one, that’s a perfect way of putting it. Now, what would my baby like to do now?”
A smile inches onto my face as I ponder a moment my course of action. Soon, I’m curled close to my mother as she reads Aesop’s Fables to me. When she finishes, she rubs my ears and holds me close.
“Mommy, I’m glad you could come and babysit me.” I sigh in contentment as I cuddle close to her.
She smiles as she rubs my back, “I’m glad as well, Caiden.” she releases me and sets me in her lap. “So, what other questions do you have for me?”
“Well,” I rub my chin as I ponder any new queries I could give my mother. “Have you ever been in a situation where you felt like people didn’t believe you, Mommy?”
“Hummm…” I watch as her eyes flicker, a mix between green and purple before they return to their normal brown hue and focus on me seconds later, “I can name a few situations, Caiden.”
“Like what! Like what!” I bounce in her lap as I await her response, a grin gracing my lips seconds afterward. “Well, Mommy, are you gonna tell me?” I inquire as I crawl up to her face, happiness engrained in my own features.
She snickers as she gives me a gentle nudge back into her lap, “You certainly do have a plethora of energy. I can see why your brother and sister didn’t want you to eat too many sweets. Did you happen to eat any sugary substances before I came by?”
I shake my head as my eyes rise to meet her, “Nope, and you didn’t answer my question, Mommy. Did you ever get in a situation where you felt that others didn’t believe you?”
“Oh of course I have, Caiden. I’ve been there more times than I can count, little one. I remember one specific instance, it was with David. He didn’t believe that I could do something or another better than him. He thought that just because he had more experience in playing card games that I couldn’t beat him. Well, I proved him wrong quickly. Not only did I beat him, Caiden,” she scoffs as her eyes find the ceiling then me moments afterward. “I beat him by twenty points. He’s never underestimated me since then.”
“Well, you’re lucky, Mommy.” I rebuttal as I cross my arms and pout, “I’m not blessed with such a luxury.”
She stands with me cradled in her arms straightaway, which catches me off guard. She smiles down at me as she pokes my nose, “Caiden, you don’t need to worry about that now. Just know this….your elder siblings have a job, that job is to think that their younger siblings aren’t always right. It’s a game to them really, and if you think of it that way……” she sighs as she carries me outside and crosses the threshold from the house onto the deck nanoseconds later. A wide smile inches onto her face when the beauty strikes us, “If you think that way, Caiden, you’ll always understand them. Even when they don’t understand you.”
I smile up at her as we head down the stairs of the deck and come to rest in the backyard. She sits under the lone tree adjacent the house and I get comfortable in her lap. After shifting for a couple cycles, I relax and a satisfied purr leaves me as my eyes find her again, “Mommy, you know you’re amazing. You always know what to tell me to make me think and reanalyze my approach. I’ve used that method in a lot of situations in the past and it’s helped me a plethora of times.”
She averts her eyes from scanning the sky to me and smiles. “You know, Caiden…” she pulls me into a warm, comfort-filled hug and rubs my back, which causes purrs to break away from me. “You really do have an advanced vocabulary. That, and many other things about you tell me you’re not a normal seven-year-old by any means. That doesn’t mean Mommy doesn’t love you, quite the opposite actually. I love you even more because you’re uniquely created by The Most High and my family and I have been entrusted to care for you. Caiden, ever since you came to our home all those years ago, I loved you. I still love you, Caiden and that will never change.”
“So,” my eyes fall to the ground as tears pool inside them, “so you still love me despite all the weird stuff that’s happened?”
Before tears can flow free, I find myself held close to her chest and my back being rubbed. “Caiden, Mommy loves you more than life itself. I want you to always know that.” She releases me from the embrace and I glimpse at her concern-filled dark brown pools, “You understand me, Caiden? Mommy always loves you, no matter what.”
I smile as I wipe my tears, “I understand, Mommy. Um…will you read to me, please?”
“Of course, Caiden.” She rises to her feet and places me over her shoulders, “where would you like me to read to you?” she inquires as she begins to trek around the backyard.
“In my bedroom, Mommy. I wanna have some stories read to me before I go to bed.”
“Alright, Caiden, I can do that.” She walks back toward the deck and ascends the steps. Happiness begins to course through me as I’m carried into the house and down the hall toward my room. Once beyond the threshold, she changes me then walks with me to my rocking chair. The instant she sits down with me in her lap, I smile up at her.
“Thanks for that, Mommy, I was getting uncomfortable.” Contentment writes itself on my face as she runs a gentle hand through my hair then pulls the blue book from under the rocking chair.
“Alright, little one,” she checks her watch then faces me, “it’s 2430 now. Yes, the day went by quick, but at least we had fun talking and enjoying the outside, right?”
I regard her with a smile as she opens the book and her angelic voice begins to soar toward my ears,
The Kid and the Wolf


A KID, returning without protection from the pasture, was pursued
By a Wolf. Seeing he could not escape, he turned round, and
Said: “I know, friend Wolf, that I must be your prey, but before
I die I would ask of you one favor you will play me a tune to
Which I may dance.” The Wolf complied, and while he was piping
And the Kid was dancing, some hounds hearing the sound ran up and
Began chasing the Wolf. Turning to the Kid, he said, “It is just
What I deserve; for I, who am only a butcher, should not have
Turned piper to please you.”

In time of dire need, clever thinking is key
Or outwit your enemy to save your skin.

A giggle of happiness leaves me as I clap at her angelic voice and ability to suck me into the story, “Mommy, can you read me some more, please?”
She obliges and soon her angelic voice hits my ears again. I love her story telling, yet it seems my entire family has a knack for this. As the tenth story reaches my ears, sleepiness begins to battle within me and my eyes droop. I notice straightaway that my mother is leaving for another location. A whimper vacates my lips and tears begin to well in my eyes. I don’t want her leave me…not yet…not at all for that matter. “MOMMY! MOMMY, DON’T LEAVE ME!”
She turns on her heel in the doorway and scans my whimpering form. Moments afterward, she’s at my bedside stroking my forehead, “What’s the matter, sweetie?”
Another whimper leaves and a sniffle follows as my eyes scan her concerned face, “No no…no…NO! DON’T LEAVE ME! I DON’T WANT YOU TO LEAVE ME!” tears threaten to fall as my voice fails, whimpers overtaking me.
“Alright, alright, no need to scream, no need for tears. Mommy’s here, Caiden, Mommy’s here. I won’t leave you if you don’t want me to. Are you scared of the dark?” she averts her eyes from me, a quick surveillance of my room before her eyes fall on my frightened form, “I thought your Brother put a nightlight in your room for you.”
“He…he did, but…but…” I raise my arms to her and another whimper exits my lips, “I don’t want to be alone! Please don’t leave me, Mommy.”
I watch her as a falcon its prey. Her eyes don’t leave me as she grabs my rocking chair and moves it to my bedside. With it positioned back facing my dresser, yet enough room to rock back and forth, she sits down and sets me in her lap.
“Don’t worry, sweetheart, Mommy’s right here,” she soothes as her warm touch caresses my forehead, “I will not leave you. I promise you, Caiden. As long as you’re scared, I’ll remain here.” She rises from the chair and plants a kiss on my forehead once I’m safe in my bed.
I smile at her gesture and yawn in almost immediate reply, “Thanks, Mommy…I…I love you.” I turn over and face her after another yawn leaves my throat, fear that if I’m not facing her, I’ll snatched from her protective aura. “I love you, Mommy! Good night.”
“Good night, Caiden,” she smiles, covers me up to my chin in the warm blankets, and reclines in the rocking chair. I smile at her kindness as the heaviness of sleep begins to battle within me. Soon my eyes close, my thumb finds its way into my mouth, and slumber comes easy. My mother smiles at my adorable sleeping form and blows a kiss before she begins to rock herself into deep sleep moments later.