Behind Glass

Prologue

"PLEASE DONT TAKE HER!" The women with dark long black hair that cascaded all passed her back to the floor cried kneeling and begging for the shadow hidden behind the long red trench coat not to take her child but she knew it was all part of the deal.

"QUIET CHILD!I TOLD YOU I WOULD TAKE THIS ONE!" The shadows voice sent a terrifying chill down the women's spine. The women had pools of tears covering her neck and face. This women felt like her heart has just split in two and she knew she couldn't live like this.

"BUT I TAKE IT BACK TAKE MY ABILITY TO HAVE CHILDREN BACK! PLEASE I JUST WANT HER!" The shadow laughed a loud laugh that would give anyone the sense of horror. The women knew it was impossible to get her beautiful child back but she just had to try anything.

"NO!" The answer was simply but hurt the women beyond words. "But. I could take your heartbreak away?" This was the sentence that made the women stop crying for good.

"How?" The women stood up but her body felt so weak. The shadow put the soft innocent sleeping child back in the crib with delaciace and kissed the child's forehead causing the women to flinch. She didn't want the shadow to take her child let alone kiss her. The shadow didn't seem to notice and walked towards the women.She stood still and pushed her sense to panic down and looked at the shadow with red puffy eyes.

Something deep down told her not to make the deal but she wanted to have a child so badly she couldn't think of any concecuinces back then she was so naive and too blind to see it was doomed from the beginning.

The shadow stood right in front of her. it toke her checks into its hands which felt warm and cold at the same time like its hands couldn't decide on a temperature.

"I'll erase your memory of this child" The thought of forgetting her first born child made her want to cry in despair again and again till she couldn't cry anymore and would probably die from a breaking heart. But forgetting could be easier she would have more kids raise them happily with a husband. She made a choice she knew was wrong but had to it for herself. She closed her eyes and toke in a deep breath.

"Yes" the women looked upon the shadows face which was more of a dark figure concealed by a red hood." Do it and leave...please" she let a hiccup leave her lips.

"Close your eyes" The women did what she was told. A couple of words in a lost language came from the figure till the women fell to the floor and into a deep sleep that would only last an hour till she woke and forgot her little bundle of joy.

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After entering the mansion the figure gently laid the baby in the crib she made herself just for the baby. The baby looked at the figure, afraid it started to cry but once the figure took its hood off the baby stopped It's crying and stared at an older women who didn't have the hood no more but showed her true identity. The women smiled and caressed the baby's soft cheek.

"You're destined for great things my love" The women moves away from the crib to the mirror beside it and wrote two simple words with the tip of her finger that gave a magical light to the writing.

'Miss Alice'