The little girl held her stomach, the other hand clutched her doll tightly. She had been feeling pain in her stomach for sometime and it didn't relieve her for a second.
Turning on the bed was difficult, it made her stomach hurt more. To prevent that, she laid very still on the bed not daring to move as she slowly fan her hands out on the bed, her doll on her chest. She was drenched in sweat, her hair sticking to her forehead and her neck. She was breathing in and out slowly.
This was the only position she can be to lessen the pain whenever she was not feeling too well she would lay on her back and breath in and out slowly. She started crying knowing the scary lady would be angry if she comes and see her laying on the bed. She had warned her to only sleep on the bed untill after dinner.
She felt hot all over, her cloth sticking to the bed. She had to be calm to prevent her doll from getting sick too. There was no cloth to cover her doll's nose and mouth and she had no idea if her doll would get sick too from being exposed to her.
"I am sorry but don't worry I will get better and you will not fall sick." She raised her hand with much difficulty to pat her doll slowly. "I have to count my numbers, momo said to count it." She winced in pain when she felt a sudden cramp at the left side of her stomach which made her tumbled from the bed to the floor gasping for air, bile rose up her throat and she crawled dragging her doll with her to a corner to throw up.
Clutching her doll tightly to her chest she threw up till her stomach felt light and empty, she took few deep breath and used one hand to rub her back and she felt a little relieve. She wanted to rinse her mouth so bad or runaway from the stinking room but she could only crawled back weakly to the bed with her doll. She climbed it with her weak shaky hands and lay down flat on her back, her doll resting on her chest. She started crying, her chest rising and falling till her voice went hoarse and her throat dry.
"Momo.... where is momo.. I want momo..." She cried. "I am sorry you will not get sick." She told the doll stroking its head as she cried. She had difficultly in breathing because of the mucus in her nose, to get rid of it she wiped her nose with her dress. Her dress was already dirty losing the pink colour.
Staying in the room for so long without having a bath and washing her hair made her hair deranged. She had lost her hair tie and the mass was sticking all over her face making her so uncomfortable. "Yes I should count my numbers." She reminded herself. "One two three four five...." She stopped when she heard some yelling and it was coming from out her window. She was startled when she heard like a metal clashed against her window.
What was happening. She scrambled on the bed to her feet moving to the head of the bed and jumped but it was fruitless, the window was high on the roof and now some sort of shield was blocking it, she sniffled sitting down on the bed after trying some few weak higher jumps. Her stomach still hurts.
A door banged and she yelped, she heard footsteps running and some angry shouting which made her quickly jump off the bed ignoring the sharp pain in her stomach. She crawled underneath it clutching her doll tightly. Seeing the mess she created the scary lady would hit her and she was so scared she started hyperventilating, her mouth quivering as tears roll down her face.
"Kamigani will be alright.. Kamigani will be alright." She repeated when she heard keys giggling and the door yanked open with force it banged on the wall and the lantern swayed.
"Stupid girl..."
It was the scary lady and she was coming to beat her. The girl shut her eyes when a hand reached for her, grabbing her arm and dragged her out.
"I am sorry..... I am sorry" The girl cried flunging her eyes open, her eyes widen in fear trying desperately pull her arm out of the woman's tightened hold.
"Shut up!" The woman raised her hand to hit her when they heard footsteps rushing towards them.
"Lets go!" Someone yelled at her.
The girl peek to see a man but just like the woman his facial features wasn't clear. The woman dragged her out of the room in a hurry.
"What happened to her?" Another man by the door asked.
"I will still cut out your tongue and gut your liver." The woman threatened the man dragging the girl into a passage.
The girl blinked trying to adjust to the bright lit passage, she blinked a few times bouncing on her feet to match the woman's own. A man was leading the way and the other was walking behind them. She was so scared she stopped crying at once and the sound of metal clashing was fading away.
The man leading signaled for them to wait before turning into another passage which was dimmer. They hurried till they got to a small gate, just the height of the girl. The man leading produced a key and opened it. He ushered them out following behind them, it led to the woods and it was bright outside which made the girl blinked trying to adjust to the brightness and blinked few times, tears rolling down her eyes but they didn't wait for her to get use to it before they started running in the woods.
"You should carry her." The man running behind them suggested but the woman only snorted dragging the girl with her.
Her feet hurts, her heart was beating faster and she was weak she felt like crying with the speed the woman was dragging her and all she could see was black and blue hue making her fall only to be dragged up to her feet. She fell for the third time which made her doll roll out of her hand.
The woman cursed and tightened her hold pulling her to her feet starting to drag her again and the man behind them mumbled some complaint.
"No... no.." The girl panicked seeing they were leaving her doll behind. The doll would get scared and may be eaten by a beast.
"Shut up or I hit you!"
Seeing her doll on the ground, the distance between them was getting larger which made her screamed and she bit down hard on the woman's hand till she draw out blood and could taste some metallic taste in her mouth mixed with the bitterness of the residue in her mouth. The woman screamed slapping her away to inspect her hand.
The girl quickly crawled to her feet, she didn't wait for the woman to recover when she bolted dodging the other man that spread his hands trying to catch her. She started running down the path she came ignoring the pain in her feet and her legs that were about to give up.
"Chase her!"
"Stupid girl, I will kill you...." The woman screamed.
The girl ran getting closer to her doll, she would not go anywhere without it. The other man fell on the floor, his hand grabbed the tip of her dress tightly. She turned to see the man was trying to free his foot from a twing and the other woman was holding a tree trunk stepping carefully on the sloppy ground. She panicked and tried to wiggle out of the man's hold.
"Wait, let me catch you." The woman voice dripped with hate.
The girl heard horse hoofs getting nearer and she stamped the man's hand making him yelp and released her dress. She ran down the path tears trailing down her face when two horses came to view. A figure on one of the horses dressed in an armour draw their bow and shot an arrow. The arrow pierced the woman's chest and she fell hard on the ground rolling to the girl's feet.
The woman's hair was rolled up in dirt and this time the girl could see her feature. Her deep brown eyes stared at the girl, her wide mouth gaping in horror as blood spilled out of it. Seeing this horrifying expression made the girl screamed. Others dressed in amour gave chase to the other man that was fleeing.
The figure on the horse jumped down and remove their helmet to reveal a long dark hair. Her amour was stained with blood and she knelt on the floor picking up the woven pink rabbit doll carefully.
"My baby....." The woman in the amour whispered, her hair bouncing with the wind.
"Momo!" The girl yelled running wildly to meet her.
Kamigani opened her eyes before she could see the woman in the amour face clearly. She blinked and rubbed her eyes. The dreams kept hunting her and the only solution was to get up from the bed.