Caulbearer: Eyes wide open - the novel Prologue --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nadia remembered her first encounter with the other side as if it were yesterday. She knew that she had always had the gift, but her first memory with one of them was when she was just 3 years old. The small male creature helped her out of her little pink toddler bed and led her downstairs into the kitchen, where she sat down in a corner flat on her behind and began singing pat-a-cake pat-a-cake baker’s man with him, clapping their tiny hands against their own and then against each others, making soft lapping noises. The light clapping sounds were obviously loud enough to be heard by her sleeping mother who was an already acutely light sleeper. With a racing heart, she rose silently from her bed alone in the dark, and made her way downstairs to the kitchen which was where the clapping was coming from. She switched on the light and, was horrified to find her 3 year old toddler playing and talking to herself in the pitch black kitchen, eerily all alone. She looked up at her mother with her sparkly green eyes, her soft bouncy blonde curls bobbing up as she titled her head sideways. She smiled excitedly at her mother. Nadia, what are you doing here all alone sweetheart? She asked the little girl. Im not alone mommy, Im with my friend. Which friend honey, I dont see anyone. Nadias mother, Yasmine shuddered, as her worst fears were being realised. Cant you see him mommy? Hes right here. Nadia replied sweetly. He says that you dont have the sight like me and daddy.’ Yasmine shrieked, grabbed her little daughter and ran back upstairs with her on her hip. She hurried over to her sleeping husband and woke him urgently. Zak, she shook his shoulder vigorously. Zak, wake up please. You have to get up. Theres something in the house. Its one of them, Im sure of it. Nadias fathers eye flew open with anticipation. Where! He huffed sternly. Where is it? Im not sure? In the kitchen I think. Stammered Yasmine. He bolted up in the bed and stood up quickly. He turned towards the door, and froze. His eyes were fixed on something in the doorway, something that Yasmine could not see. He and their young daughter Nadia on the other hand, could see it clearly. “Leave, now! He instructed, his bloodshot eyes still locked onto the middle of the doorway. Leave I said, or I will force you out! Just then he turned his face to the side, casting his eyes away from the hideous creature revealed before him. As little Nadia saw the sight her father had just seen, she began screaming and crying hysterically. She cried into her young mother’s shoulder. The creature that they initially saw was almost humanlike in appearance, hovering above the ground creepily, not placing a foot flat on the floor. As it grew angry, it began manifesting itself in its true form, which was ugly enough to make a grown man cry, much less a little toddler. Its blackened form started hissing at Zak, threatening to do harm. “Allahu laa ilaaha illaahu hayyul qayyoom…” Zak began reading some verses as an incantation to chase the being away. With each word uttered, it became weaker, and appeared to be injured by Zak’s recitation. With the last few words, it vanished, conquered by the immense power of the incantation. A sigh of relief swept over him. He swept back his black hair and wiped the beads of sweat that had formed across his full eyebrows. “It’s alright now, it’s gone.” He turned around to face his wife and child, trying to relax them. Yasmine ran over to him with Nadia and clung to his bear chest. “Will this ever come to an end, Zak?” Yasmine asked him shakily. “Don’t worry honey, that one was pretty harmless. It was a little one just looking for some company, and he found it in Nadia.” “You looked pretty nervous for it to have been harmless.” “Only because you were so scared. Let’s go back to bed, I’ll find out from Turab in the morning how it managed to slip pass him.” Yasmine got back into bed with Nadia still attached to her. The little girl was still quite shaky, so they decided to keep her in bed with them. Yasmine began to stroke her daughter’s hair and sang her a lullaby to calm her. She soon relaxed, and fell asleep, and forgot all about the jinn.
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