1 A child from elswhere

Chapter 1: A child from elsewhere

"What is happening?" I thought.

I couldn't understand what was happening to me right now, I mean , one second I was dying on my bed from my old age, and one second later I'm here, on my back in a crater of some sort. There were burnt marks here and there, it was like there has been an explosion not a minute ago. I tried to stand to better examine my surrounding in order to know where I am and why I am here, but I couldn't muster the strenght to do so. I was panicking, I couldn't move as I wanted, I could only move my head a little and couldn't even lift it!

While I was panicking, I heard some noise coming from the edge of the crater, by the sound of it, it was a horse. I looked at the origin of the noise and found a man on a horse, he looked strange. He had brown eyes and was 1.80 meter high (around 5.9 ft), he had broad shoulder, and looked really strong, but the strangeness wasn't due to that, no what was really strange about him was that he had fiery red hair and wore clothes that I only saw in books on middle-age and museums. It was really weird. I thought that maybe he was a part of some sort of theater troup or something and didn't think further on it, I mean, I was already full thinking on where I was and why. The man came down from his horse and walked down the crater to me.

"What are you doing there little boy?" he said looking at me with a small smile.

I was destabilized by his statement. Why would he call me a little boy when I was clearly older than him, he was at best 30 years old while I was 86 years old.

"gazou ahreu" I tried to ask him why he said that but only gibberish came out of my mouth.

"there there little boy, don't worry I'm here." he said while reaching out to me and lifting me in his hands. It was at this moment that I noticed that he was really tall, or not, in fact I thought that maybe it was me who was really small, I wasn't even 1 meter tall (3,28 ft). I was the same height as a baby....

"Nooo I'm a baby!!!! How is it possible, I was 86 years old dying on my bed and then … Hooo my god I was reincarneted in a baby after dying!!! but why do I retain my memories? I don't think that in my old life I remembered my life even before so why do I still remember it now?" I ranted in my head while trying to understand what happened to me. I was so shocked that I started crying and didn't notice it.

"Don't cry little boy, nothing bad will happen you're safe now, don't cry." said hurriedly the man not knowing why I was acting like that.

After hearing that, I stopped noticed what I was doing and stopped crying. The man was visibly reassured and began walking up to his horse that was still on the edge of the crater. He then climbed on the horse before making it go away from the crater.

After some time spent riding, we reached a wall. It had a gate in it and peoples were going in and out of wall by this gate. We passed everyone that waited in line to be examined by some guards before letting them in. Once we reached the gate, the man that held me spoke to the guard.

"hey hanz! Did something noteworthy happened while I was away?" He said.

"No baron!" declared the guard now named Hanz he was brown haired and had a tall stature, he had blue eyes and I couldn't know what he looked like under his armor and helmet. Once the man that held me now named Baron heard that he passed the wall and entered the city, it wasn't a big city but it was still pretty the peoples were smiling and there weren't any beggars on the street. The baron rided for a while and then we reached a mansion. He dismounted and after giving the horse's bridle to a servant, entered the mansion. We were greeted the maids that were there to clean the hallway. The baron kept walking until he reached a door, he then opened it and entered in the room. It was some king of living room with a fireplace on a side and some couch and armchairs disposed around it. In the couch were two children and a woman. They were reading a book. The girl who looked like she was 5 years old, looked amazed at the story, while the boy, that looked like he was 1 or 2 years older than the girl, looked like already heard it and knew what will happen. Once we entered, they turned around and spotted the man, but it seemed that they didn't notice me.

"hello everyone." he greeted them.

"Daddy!" shouted the two children before running to him.

"Dear, you're back." said the woman more camly but still warmly.

Once the children reached the man, they noticed me and asked him.

"Daddy, why are you holding a baby, do we have a little brother?" Said the hopeful girl. While the boy didn't say anything.

"Yes Nahl, from now on he's your little brother Adam!" answered the man.

"Dear what does that mean?" Asked the woman with a sweet tone that sent a chill run down my back, and it wasn't even directed at me! The man then slowly turned to the woman before saying.

"Sweethearth, could you come with me in the next room, I have something to tell you."

"Okay. Charlie, Nahl, stay here and make sure that little Adam there don't harm himself." She said before following the man to the next room.

After they left, the two children began playing with me, making stupid gsture you do to a baby to make him laugh. I faked laughing to make them happy and this lasted for a while before the man and woman came back in.

"Okay, Nahl, Charlie, from now on, little Adam over there will be a part of our family. Do you understand?" declared the woman to the two children.

They looked happy and then both exclaimed "Yes!".

And so that was how I became a part of their little family.