Chronicles of Eden - Act III by Alexander Gordon Read Free Book Online Page B

not going to hurt you,” Luna pleaded softly.
    The child showed a nervous expression to that as Luna gently let her hands go, the young girl then slowly moving her hands up to the top of Luna’s head, where they came in contact with her antennae. The child gasped as she felt the insect appendages on the monster’s head and trembled in fear.
    “You… you’re a monster!”
    “Please,” Luna begged. “I promise I’m not going to hurt you, don’t scream or cry, please don’t cry! I just wanted to help you. I didn’t want you to get hurt or to drown! I just wanted to help! Please don’t cry, don’t cry, little girl! Just… just please don’t start crying!”
    Luna started sobbing uncontrollably as the child showed concern before the young girl slowly moved her hands back down to Luna’s face, touching the cheeks and mouth to get a picture of the sorrowful expression on the butterfly monster’s face. She could hear Luna crying, and could feel the facial movements showing the monster’s remorseful frown.
    “I just wanted to help you,” Luna wept. “I didn’t want you to get hurt or to drown. I’m sorry, please don’t scream at me! I’m not a bad monster, I’m not!”
    “Are you crying?” the child asked softly. Luna whimpered and nodded, with the child feeling the monster’s tears on her hands. “You’re… you’re sad?”
    “I’m sorry,” Luna whimpered. “I don’t want to scare you. I just wanted to help you. You were going to drown in the river, so I flew over and lifted you up. I just wanted to help.”
    The child just stared at her with a stunned gaze while slowly moving her hands around Luna’s cheeks.
    “I was saved… by a monster?” Luna sniffled and nodded while Falla watched the young child carefully. “Why did you save me?”
    “What do you mean why? You were going to drown. I couldn’t just let that happen.”
    The child looked at her curiously then cocked her head slightly to the side in question.
    “But I’m a human.”
    “I don’t care,” Luna said shaking her head. “You’re still so young, you didn’t deserve to die, that wouldn’t be right.”
    The child remained silent for a while then slowly looked to where she heard Falla from then back to Luna.
    “Who are you two? What are you two?”
    “My name is Luna, and this is my sister, Falla,” Luna said softly. “We’re… we’re known as giant butterflies to you humans.”
    The child looked at her with wonder as Luna helped her stand again.
    “Butterflies? You’re a butterfly monster?”
    “Yes, we are,” Luna said gently. “But we don’t harm humans, really. We’re not going to hurt you at all. I’ve never harmed a human in my entire life.”
    Slowly the child reached her hands out and felt Luna’s head then down to her shoulders, the girl then walking around the monster and feeling along her body to her wings. She showed a curious expression as she gently ran her hands along Luna’s wing, with the sisters watching her as she used her hands to feel out the shape and size of the wings.
    “Wow, you have wings.”
    “Yeah, we are butterfly monsters after all,” Falla pointed out.
    As the child felt along Luna’s wing to the edges Falla watched as the young girl showed a curious expression while she made out the body and form of her savior.
    “Look, kid,” Falla said glancing away. “We’re just going to go now, okay? We’re not going to hurt you or anything.”
    “But, Falla,” Luna said shaking her head. “We can’t leave her here. It’s not safe.”
    “What do you expect us to do?” Falla asked. “We can’t just take her with us and keep her, not to mention that if we’re seen with her like this we’re dead. I mean look at her.”
    Luna stood up and looked down at the young girl who was looking back and forth between the sounds of their voices. Falla shook her head and looked at her sister while gesturing to the child.
    “She’s got blood all over her from her dead family, and