Reir Chapter 1: part 2

The woman was with her son. They were enjoying a pleasant picnic together up on a hill. The surrounding trees provided them with shade, waving their long green branches in the breeze. The woman sat down on the picnic blanket cleaning up the remaining food while the boy chased butterflies in circles. The woman kept a close eye on him in case he ran off.

After she finished cleaning up, she looked up and the boy was gone. She searched frantically in the nearby bushes saying under her breath, "Reir, please don't die." He was nowhere near, so she ran off into the forest. Out of nowhere, a scream and a mighty roar came from her left. The woman darted in the same direction, not caring how many scratches she got from the forest's branches. Then, she stopped.

Her son was on top of a high branch and a bear was just starting to climb up to grab him. "Get away from him!" she yelled. She grabbed a think branch off the ground and smacked the bear accross the head. Even agrier now, the bear jumped down and rose on its hind legs towards the woman. It slashed its giant paw, nearly hitting the woman as she ducked. "Reir, run!" she yelled as loud as she could.

Hesitantly, the boy jumped down from the tree and started to run out of the forest. After a few steps, he looked back and saw his mother was pinned down, her face bloodied and bruised. "Go!" she screamed. "Don't look back! Get your father!"

The boy then ran as fast as he could. As he did, the bushes tore at his skin and branshes slapped his face. As he got out of the forest, his legs gave out and he rolled down the hill where they had their picnic. When he got to the bottom, he struggled to the door to his house.

He collapsed the moment he got inside. His father dropped the kitchen knife he was holding and rusehd to his son's side. "Reir, what happened? Where's your mother?" Reir only grunted in pain. His father, with tears streaming down his face, shook Reir and asked again loudly, "Where is your mother?" Reir barely raised his arm and said, "Forest...bear...she told me...to run..."

His father put Reir down on a chair and said, "Kaer, get my sword. Your mother is in danger." Reir's brother came out of the next room over with a sword and handed it to his father. His father walked to the door and when he was almost outside, he said, "Stay by your btoher's side and don't leave the house until I get back."

After that, they waited for hours for their father to get back. Kaer did as much as he could to heal Reir's wounds, but it did not do much. After the sun had fallen, their father came back holding their mother in his arms. Her limbs were limp and her head lolled to the side. Her entire body was coated in blood. Kaer stood up and asked, "Is she...dead?" Their father only lowered his head to hide his face and the tears that flowed like rivers down his face. "Get my shovel," he said. "Now."

Their father spent the whole night digging a hole for his wife and finally laid her down to rest when the sun rose. When he came inside, Reir noticed his hands had splinters everywhere. "Father..." His father cut him off with a raise of his hand and said, "You are never allowed in that forest gain. That goes for both of you. No questions asked."



"I miss her too, Reir," a voice said as a hand was placed on his shoulder. Reir stopped thinking about that memory and saw his father standing there with his hand on Reir's shoulder. "But we have to move on, just like you are about to. Sit down and I will show you something."



Come back next monday for part 3!!!