Finding Light

The time he spent with his kind and loving mother. The peaceful days they spent together that she would shower him with love and care. That was all before his mother changed as the responsibility of being the empress ate at her and killed her slowly from the inside out.

“I wish that you had never been born! It’s because of you that I’m stuck here…” his mother screamed at him.

“Mother…” Ren whispered in shock.

“Don’t call me that. Why did you have to be born? Why? Why did you have to be born?! Why?!” she screamed louder hysterically as she started to cry.

“Mother…please stop…” the boy whispered.

“Don’t touch me! Someone…is someone there? Take him away! Take him away from me!” the previous empress yelled as if crying desperately for help.

The dream always ended the same with the little boy being pulled away by many maids from his mother. The boy sobbed and cried but in the end, he was taken to his room where he would be far away from his mother. Ren knew that while the boy was cry