3 Chapter 3

Three months later

Its the first day of spring and today my father and I are getting the farm ready for the year. We're planting in the garden and tending the animals finding ones that have become too old to produce anything other than meat separating them for slaughter later to sell for money by putting in the smoke house to preserve it. Its an all day job and then some for just two people. But we work hard and diligently. My father has also discovered that we should be having some calves soon so we are having to prepare for that as well.

By the time night comes we aren't even halfway done but we stop anyways to get some dinner and go to bed to start it all over before dawn. When my father and I finished cooking we sit down at our table with still three chairs just enough for our small family we never could afford more than that being farmers and my father never had time to make a fourth for a guest. But now the table feels empty without my mother there to lighten the mood after a hard day's work.

She was always the light in our home by doing all that needed done in the house while my father and I would work outside. She would remind us to take a short break every now and then so we didn't overwork ourselves. She was the reason my father never got sick from overexertion.

My father finishes his food getting up saying "finish eating so you can get some rest we have a lot of work ahead of us." He then walks off to his bed near the fireplace. I just sit there slowly eating and when I finish I'm not tired so I sneak out to go for a walk in the woods to clear my head.

I walk through the trees until I reach a river close by where I always have seamed to get my thoughts clear. Its just so peaceful. But today I feel as if this place is different today as if something or someone is watching me. I look around me but nothing is there. I sit down on the ground my thoughts just swirling around in my head then I  hear the whispers again but I can't make out who they are or where they are coming from. There are som many talking at once I can't determine what they are saying then I hear. 'We must prepare for she has been born the bridge between our worlds we must find her before they do.'