Abigail: Strange Things come in Small Packages by Daemon Manx

Author:Daemon Manx [Manx, Daemon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Last Waltz Publishing
Published: 2021-10-28T23:00:00+00:00

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Adrian sat in the large waiting area with Abigail discreetly tucked away in her carry-all. Despite the eighty-plus degree weather, he had covered Abby in as many blankets he could find to help disguise the child from the eyes of the public. The women who shared the room with them sat patiently, their own infants and toddlers in their arms and at their sides. The place was far too crowded for Adrian’s liking. He couldn’t help but notice how nearly all the women continued to look his way and at the carry-all where Abby was hidden. At first, they would glance at him and the crib, but that quickly escalated. It wasn’t long before every set of eyes were staring at the carry-all that lay between his feet.

Adrian didn’t have time to react when the first woman left her seat and approached them. She crossed the room, bent down, and parted the blankets that covered Abigail’s face.

“Oh my God!” the woman gasped.

Adrian panicked and finally reacted. He quickly arranged the blankets to cover the child’s face and defensively moved the carry-all out of the woman’s reach. She had seen it; she had seen the strange deformities in the child, and now she would start screaming. Adrian prepared for what was about to happen next.

“My God!” the woman exclaimed again. “She’s absolutely gorgeous. What’s her name?” She moved in closer and parted the blankets once again. Adrian watched as the woman examined the child. She stared into Abigail’s violet and then silver eyes and smiled as if all of her needs had been satisfied. The woman scanned the child’s strange grey features, her oddly placed scales, and the tiny nubs of horns that jutted out from the fantastic creature’s forehead. Abigail yawned, revealing her reptilian split tongue.

“Oh my! Who’s a sleepy little girl?” The woman cooed. “She is magnificent.”

One by one, the rest of the women in the waiting area approached Adrian and Abigail. Their reactions were exactly the same. They marveled and swooned over the child. Not one of them noticed anything out of place or peculiar about her. They were all mesmerized by her beauty and perfection. Abigail had hypnotized the entire room.

“Dr. Ezekiel will see Abigail now,” a young woman said through the receptionist’s window. Not a moment too soon. Adrian was more than just a little uncomfortable with all of the attention that the women were doting over Abby. As he fixed the blankets and picked up the carry-all, an extraordinary thing happened, and Adrian noticed it instantly. The glow of tranquility and adoration that had consumed every face in the waiting room was suddenly washed away and replaced by something entirely different. Their eyes followed him as he carried Abby out of the waiting area. The look of sadness and longing was so firmly etched into their features that it was impossible to mistake it for anything else. The women were more than sad that Abby had been taken from them. They were devastated.

The women had left their own children unattended in their strollers and in their chairs.

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