The Soul Room by Corinna Edwards-Colledge

Author:Corinna Edwards-Colledge [Edwards-Colledge, Corinna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Story Land Press
Published: 2015-04-23T04:00:00+00:00

For the first time he was waiting for me as I arrived in the room, waiting by the edge of the green-tiled circle, his face expectant and worried. I went up to him, as close as I dared and knelt by him.

‘What is it sweetheart?’

‘You’re so sad Mummy. I don’t know what to do!’

‘Not all the time. You make me happy. Happier than you’ll ever know.’

‘But everything else. Everything else is making you sad.’

‘I know. But there’s nothing I can do about it.’

‘There is something.’ He looked at me oddly and walked off towards the nearest window seat and gestured for me to come. I went over and sat next to him. He turned around then, kneeling up and gazing over the back of the cushion at the sea. It was steely grey, almost indistinguishable from the sky, the dull light of it reflected in his eyes.

‘What is it? What is it I could do?’

‘You know really Mum.’

I turned to look out with him and sighed. ‘Yes, there is that. But I’m scared.’

‘I know and I don’t want you to go Mummy. I’m scared too, but I’ve thought and thought and I think it’s OK with me.’

‘Going to Italy could mean putting us both at risk! How can you say it’s OK?’

He gazed at me steadily, and it was like looking into the eyes of someone who had lived for hundreds and hundreds of years, not a little boy. ‘Because it’s the only thing that will make you free.’

I nodded and turned to look out at the ocean beyond the window. Sheets of rain had started to fall, churning up the surface of the sea and making it boil.

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