1st incarnation
Age zero
The cries of a new life begin.
It brings joy and relief on the faces of the parents.
Both of them feels like they’ve accomplished something that they both wanted for so long.
So much time and so many difficult trails has led up to this moment.
It brings tears to their eyes.
Looking back at everything they’ve experiences, it all feels like so long ago.
However, now a new part of their life will begin and it starts with the beginning of their child.
But it seemed to be like the child himself is able to comprehend much more than what he is supposed to.
With his undeveloped human brain.
It is difficult to comprehend anything around that is happening.
However, he tries to grasp a slither of everything that is happening and construct a sentence within his mind.
‘Where am I?’
***
Age half a year
‘So, my name is Loran Dorman.’
Loran wouldn’t be able to grasp his own name if his parents wouldn’t constantly be speaking his name again and again into his ears.
Either they love him or doesn’t know how to give privacy to their own baby.
Due to this, he has also been able to understand few more things about his parents.
First and foremost, about his mother.
Her name is Selina Dorman and she might be the most beautiful person of this world.
Blue eyes, fair skin and long blonde hair, not to mention her kind love towards Loran.
All these factors sure make him think that his mother is beautiful.
He isn’t sure of it though because he hasn’t seen much of the world.
He is only half a year old you know.
But from the experience as a six months old child.
He can tell that she is really incredibly gorgeous.
He would say that his father sure is lucky to have her as his wife.
But even he isn’t anything less than her.
His father’s name is Wick Dorman and he is also really handsome.
His black eyes, white hair and his light brown skin.
He looks like a gentleman and just the perfect match for his mother.
If they both won’t adore him so much.
He wouldn’t be able to tell that these are his parents.
‘Both of them look incredible.
How do I look like?’
He hasn’t been able to walk properly.
So, he can’t really properly roam around his home.
There aren’t any mirrors here either.
So, his own face is a mystery to him.
To solve this mystery, he has been working hard.
He is sure that soon enough, he will be able to walk properly and solve these mysteries.
Then he might also be able to solve other mysteries too.
Like sometimes, there are other unfamiliar people that come in his home to take care of him for some reason.
Like they clean him and change his diaper or clothes.
He only sees his loving mom and dad few times.
‘Another thing on the list of things that I need to know.
Being a baby isn’t that easy.
And also…’
He always wonders is this how babies are?
Why can he thing so clearly and know few things that he hasn’t encountered yet?
Loran sigh and falls asleep.
Being a child makes it easy to ignore your own worrying thoughts.
***
Age 2
Loran can stand on his two feet and walk freely in his home.
He has seen himself in the mirror and is proud to say that he is also very cute.
He has eyes of his mother, hair of his father and skin that is a mixture of both.
It took him if days to find the mirror that is at his height.
That is because the house is much bigger than his imagination.
When he first started walking around.
He wasn’t sure that his home even has an end.
It might even be never-ending.
But soon, he figured out that his home isn’t just a home.
It is a big mansion and it does has an end.
‘And I thought, my room was the whole house.
I was really stupid back then, huh?
Well, I am much smarter now… if you compare me to someone with my age.’
It is true that because of his own nature.
He has been able to grasp whatever he learns much better than other children of his age.
He even has leant to spell his own name much quicker.
This is because his education was started really early.
Classes were taken by a maid who is somewhat educated and knows a little bit of everything.
And the mystery of who were those people who come in his home to take care of him is solved.
They were just maids and servants who worked in the house.
It has been few months seen he has started learning few words.
There are even lessons on how to behave and act.
Of course, these lessons are not very strict and some of the days are just him learning the very basics that he already knows because of his odd nature.
He has decided to hide his uniqueness from his parents.
He doesn’t want his parents and servants to think that he is a devil or something.
He isn’t entirely sure what is a devil.
But he can relate that it is related to danger or something not good.
So, he acts innocent and try to act as much like a child as possible.
Loran’s schedule is learning, playing and exploring his own house most of the time.
Getting lost in the mansion and then crying for help.
Very rarely he gets to go out with his dad or mom.
He has grasped that when he was just a baby, he really only met his parents at night.
Because of being a baby, keeping up with time is difficult.
Babies sleep a lot.
A lot of the day is spent all alone with servants.
They take care of him and it is relatively a very normal life for a child.
Except for the fact that few times, he acts unlike how a child should act.
Making things a little awkward when a maid or servant sees him.
He has come to know that his parents are aristocrats.
But all he is able to grasp form that they do important work.
And sometimes, that important work involves visiting mansions of other aristocrats or tycoons.
On a particular day, he got to visit another mansion.
It was probably even similar to his own mansion.
Or even bigger.
He couldn’t tell whatsoever why do they need such big places to live.
In there, he got to meet few more children like him.
He didn’t really get along with them because of his own uniqueness.
So, as he is taught manners well.
He politely pretended to be listening to their childish words and banter.
But in reality, he was actually listening to the conversation between his parents and others.
An old looking man spoke with a melancholy tone.
“Sigh, the bonders of the kingdom seem to be have broken into. Many lines of defenses have been breached and newspapers doesn’t seem to be telling the full story. Or perhaps even they don’t even know what is happening. The royal family sure has kept the own kingdom in the dark. I am even more sure now that the news of bonder breach isn’t entirely true. There is much more to the story.”
Another man spoke after taking a sip of his drink.
“Indeed, I have heard of oddities like people going missing without any call from the kidnappers for ransom money. The missing people stay missing and cases are closed forever. Do you think, this has something to do with whatever is happening in the bonder? My theory is that it is a terrorist organization trying put pressure on the royal family. I am just unsure of any reason…”
Wick dorman speaks.
“It could be related to something else entirely. There have been many serial murder cases as of late. It wouldn’t surprise me if it related those missing people cases. It is hard to say that I would agree on it being all cause of some secret organization entering through our borders.”
The old man replies.
“I might be getting old but it all just fills me with deep fear and stress. I don’t want a war to begin in this country.”
Loran suddenly straighten up and looks at the only man.
and repeats one particular word.
‘War?’
For some reason, this word fills him with deep sense of panic and desire to hide for some reason.
He even knows what War means.
It means loss of many lives in the conflicts of someone else.
He couldn’t seem to grasp why does it bring him fear.
But from his inner uniqueness he comprehends that war itself is a manmade disaster that come and go with the will of people.
And this manmade disaster reduces everything to red.
Loran composes himself as to not let anyone know of his panic.
And then he hears his dad reply back.
“Haha. We live in the capital city. There is no way that war can find its place here if it were to begin. You don’t have to fear it. I trust in the royal family and our people to not even let a war to begin. You can rest assured that nothing like that will happen.”
It felt like his dad has said these words to him.
It brings him comfort and peace, helping him believe that there is nothing to worry about.