Kimi-Oneechan

It was the dead of night when the last egg finally hatched. There was no moon on this dark night. A scaly black hand broke through the shell as Okan watched the last of his brood being born in the hatching pool underneath the village’s Hist tree. The village elder, Weedum-La, oversaw the hatching. The mother, Wuresh, took the other two eggs weeks ago. He hasn’t seen or heard from her since. Why Wuresh didn’t take this egg he didn’t know. Maybe it had something to do with it being much smaller than the other two. Regardless, this hatchling was all Okan had left of a misleading relationship with a cultist from the Worm C

-Kim looks on anxiously as the nurse runs the ultrasound sensor over her stomach, looking for any signs of the fetus that holds her baby. Tara stands next to Kim’s head watching the screen as well. Kim flinches every now and then from the tenderness of the bruise on her belly. The nurse stops in one spot and smiles.- Nurse: There we are. (clicks a button on her keyboard to freeze the frame) You were a hard one to find. (points to a peanut-looking spot attached to the wall of Kim’s uterus) See that little spot? (Kim nods) That’s the baby. Looks like you’re about 7 to 8 weeks. I’m amazed that it survived from the