𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐎𝐟 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐢𝐫𝐥

𝐗𝐗𝐕𝐈𝐈.𝐌𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞

The woman's cry stopped as the baby's started.
"Is the little one alright?" the woman asked tired, full of sweat, barely breathing.
"The little two you mean!" the first nurse said happy, all smiles.
"two?" the mother asked still dizzy
A little pause.
Then the second nurse walked in, with the first-born in her arms.
"no darling, just one" she said, very sad.

Then Arice understood. Through her pain, she tried to get up, but one of the women didn't let her to.
She gave birth to twins.
Yet only one was alive.
  "my first child died?"
  The nurse hesitated.
"she was born dead"
She
"please, give me my kid" Arice said, as tears already started to fill her eyes.
"it's not your fault dear" the first nurse, that was with her the whole  time, said. "i also understood that you had a hard time" she spoke, more like a question.
Arice only nodded.
Then the second nurse came in with the baby carefully placed in a small blanket, in her arms.
"She was born with a head full of hair!" the second nurse laughted.
This brought Arice a smile on her face too.
  Then she took her child, in her arms for the first time.
And it was true. The kid had a head full of fragile, copper coloured hair.
It was so small, and weak and pale.
She was about to ask if this one was dead too. Then, the little one turned its head and Arice started to feed her baby.
Her precious baby.
While looking on how she was being breastfed, Arice's heart melted.
This human just came out of her.
  She created this human, in her own ugly body.
  Arice kept looking at it with big eyes, and the tears she had a moment ago in her eyes turned into tears of happiness. She started laughing.
Her precious child.
Nothing mattered anymore.
She has been broken.
Because Japeth never came back.
He didn't give up on her...
He lost.
He died
The boy who she loved was no more.
But now, with this little offspring in her arms, this little human who was now moving, breathing, living right in front of her, Arice realised.
No, this kid wasn't a mistake.
It wasn't a part of Japeth's plans either.
It wasn't meant to be involved in the war.
This child was Japeth's last Good Deed.
Because in this moment..
Arice has found her true love.
Her cute baby.
Her little baby girl.
Her child...
... named Fala