In The Safe Hands

How can this place be so cold?

My lips are trembling, and I couldn't help but to be crying "Wow, Wow" again.

Huh. I have no control over this baby body's senses. Not that I can expect much from a feeble  body like this.

Sigh.

Every day, my body's weakness caused me to fall into a deep sleep without even realizing it. And a whole month have passed by, with this foggy day.

I had a little bit of my mother's milk every day until now, and thanks to my mother's love for her son, I didn't starve to death.

But all I want is for my mother to have something she could have eaten. Then there is no doubt about this small body's weakness.

...According to my perception of my body and my delicate little meridian! This frail body! I've been almost a month, and I'm afraid I'm only five or six kilograms, which is about the same as a normal newborn.

After a month of waiting and seeing people walk down the street avoiding me and my mother, a middle aged man with a strong build and a concerned expression approached us.

I suppose I should be scared because I'm a baby, but I didn't, and I certainly didn't hear anything from my mother. Looking up at her, she was in a deep unconscious state.

As the man approached us, he crouched and looked at me with a caring expression. When he looked at my mother, his expression immediately changed.

"Is she dead?" was the first thought that came to mind. She survived by not eating or drinking anything and only giving me a small amount of milk.

The man checked her breathing and with the sad expression, "I'm sorry, lil guy! your mother has passed away!" he said as he took a look at me.

The State I was in my mother's tight cradle, signifying the view of protecting me with her fragile body, made my heart deprive into darkness.

It was first time, I have ever felt the feeling of loosing someone close to me. some one very important to me. For the first time in the days I have lived in both my seventy nine years of my previous life and a month of this new life.

But, keeping my emotions in check, I looked at the man who was staring at me.

I slowly lifted my hands from my mother's embrace and touched his cheek.

"It's a pity, Lil guy! But do you want to join me?" He asked.

He had no idea a one-month-old baby could understand his words, but I did.

I don't have a choice anymore. And I need to grow in some way. I can't afford to grow up as an orphan in a place I'm unfamiliar with. As a result, I decided to agree with the man.

"I apologies, mother! I'm eternally grateful to you for giving birth to me. I will live because you protected me. Thank you very much. Mom!"

I turned my head towards the man and said in a baby voice that he couldn't understand.

In the state I was in, I couldn't nod my head, so I just tried hard and blinked twice. It was just a signal from previous life for affirmation in the special forces.

After frowning in response to my signal, the Man smiled.

Did he just understand what I said?

Ehhhh! That's not possible.

"Hahaha!" The man began to laugh and said, "Right! My name is Edwin Asher, and I'll be your father from now on! Okay!" he said,  as he gradually drew my baby body from my mother's cradle and patted my head

Taking a last look at my mother, "I will be back miss. I'll give you a proper send-off, and don't worry, your son is now in safe hands!" he said, and walked out of the place with me.

***CHAPTER 3***