<b>‘’There there, little girl. All will be alright, I promise.. I’ll take care of you now’’</b><br/><br/>Verita whispered gently in the little girls ear as she rocked the young child back and forth in her own warm embrace. Tears started to form in her eyes as she putted the pieces of the strange puzzle together. In her mind the fogginess of the darkness enveloped more and more, and she became convinced of the child’s tale telling her that it had watched the horror of the death of her own mother. Something Verita knew all too well herself. She could remember the day she came home, where she found her own mother cold as stone and staring dead against the ceiling of their home. Her father was drinking the strongest liquor he could find, and could not bear to watch his wife lying dead on their bed. It wasn’t until the townsfolk dragged her from her mother’s body that she had to deal with what had happened that day.<br/><br/>But now she was here, in this cave, and she would make sure nothing like those horrors would be part of this girls life any more. She would take care of her, like no one had done to her that day.<br/><br/><b>‘’W-would you like me to sing you a song? I always sing songs to make myself feel better…’’</b><br/><br/>Verita’s words were filled with sorrow, as she struggled to keep her composure before the child. But she began to sing, as bravely as she could. Not noticing the fact that the cold of the child began to steadily creep its way into her bones. That the abnormal cold was seeping all over her skin like a strange gooey substance.<br/><br/><b>‘’The sandman is coming… in his train of cars.<br/>
With moonbeam windows and with wheels of stars.<br/>
So hush you little one and have no fear,<br/>
The man-in-the-moon he is the engineer’’</b><br/><br/>With each stroke, the hair of the skinny child began to stick to Verita’s hands. Tears flowed over her own cheeks as she was swallowed up by the her own refound grief. She wasn’t only comforting the child anymore, she was beginning to lose her mind in the entrapment of the curse.<br/><br/><b>‘’The railroad track tis a moonbeam bright,</b><br/><br/>Verita finally felt something was amiss, and tried to shake of the tickling hairs that were stuck to her hand.<br/><br/><b>That leads right up into the starry night.</b><br/><br/>Noticing that it was hard to lift up her arm, she tried to reposition herself, only to find out that she was stuck to the floor. The sudden coldness of the child’s skin began to dawn into her mind as she sang the last sentence of the nursery rhyme with a fearful tremor in her voice.<br/><br/><b>So put on you ‘jamas and say your prayers.</b><br/><br/>Wanting to push the child away, she finally noticed the mocking eyes watching her, staring at her every move. Panic surged like a fearful wave through her body, making her struggle in the icy cold embrace the child was holding her in. At this point you could not even make out a child any more, just a glistening ghostly goo with two glowing eyes filled with watery tears, continuously mocking her. It had seeped through her clothes, moving away the one thing she had left from her friend Darion. The long flowing cape that he had covered her in after the pixies had torn away her clothes. Instead of tearing away clothes, the goo seemed to eat away the thick leather bonds that she had strapped herself in on the ship. It did not take long before all she was wearing was the ghostly stickiness of the child, pressing ever so coldly against her barenaked skin. With tears in her eyes, Verita could feel her soft round rosey nipples harden of the iciness that she was surrounded in. Her arms were still being held in the strange position of a loving hug, set into place by the flowing liquid solid.<br/><br/>A smile appeared within the goo that was creeping up upon Verita’s neck, trying to reach her lips as if it was prying her mouth open to enter inside of her body. All Verita could do was press her lips tightly together and watch in horrific fear how the monstrosity she believed to be a child, had trapped her solidly unto the floor in the middle of the pathway in this ever so creepy cave.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>