by Aldus Baker
Darla reaches out to her mother and the two join hands in the distance between their chairs. “That was a fear I had as well,” admits Darla.
“Well, fear no longer,” says Shara. “Being with you and the other children has brought me back to life. When Hallis died I thought I was alone. It took me a long time, much too long, to realize your father’s work lives on and that he lives on in all of you. I might have lost a husband, but everything he gave me is still alive. You don’t have to worry about me any longer.”
Darla rises from her chair with moist eyes, her blanket falling to the floor. She moves to kneel in front of her mother where she wraps her arms about Shara’s blanket covered legs and lays her head in her mother’s lap to cry in earnest. So much worry buried so deep is welling up and pouring out with her tears. She has never admitted to herself how much she fears losing her mother. When she tries to say it now, all she can do is cry.
Darla feels her hair gently being stroked. The sound of her mother’s voice reaches her through the sobbing. “Oh my dear, I love you so much.”
The tears continue until Darla has nothing left. Having cried out years of fear for both her mother and herself, she continues to hug Lady Shara’s legs and rest in the presence of her mother’s love and acceptance.
Out of the warmth and comfort, her mother’s voice comes again. “You go, darling. I can stand in your stead while you are away. I am ready.”
The End
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Aldus Baker lives with his family and assorted small pets in Kansas, a state which keeps Colorado from falling over on Missouri. He is a software developer by day and a writer at all other times. Aldus published his first novel in July of 2014 with more to follow.
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