Essimmia felt not right since she dreamt that forgotten nightmare.
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Sometimes she woke up at nights sweating suddenly; sometimes she could not control herself from trembling while she looked at the silver world outside.
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But the most important, the most serious problem was that one day when she saw her father fed her pets for her, she cried.
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She cried from the depth of her heart; cried it as hard as she could, and almost ran out of breath.
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It was all in a sudden, when Essimmia calmed down again, she was already in the embrace of Worrllern.
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“What are you crying for?” asked Worrllern.
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“Daddy, would you leave me?” asked Essimmia.
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“Why?” Worrllern did not get the reason for her to ask such an abrupt question.
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“Would you leave me?” Essimmia did not answer him but repeated her question again.
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“Absolutely not.” Said Worrllern. He gave his little princess the answer she wanted. “I won’t leave you, but you decide to leave me or not.”
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“Really?”
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“Really.”
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“You promise?”
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“Yes…I promise.”
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Essimmia was relieved. She believed everything her father said.
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Notwithstanding Worrllern said so, he broke his promise at the end.
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On that day, he kissed her on her forehead gently and said, “Emia, I will be out with your mother for a while.”
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She nodded and watched them leaving, then closed the door.
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As their figures disappeared from Essimmia’s eyes, she trembled and started sweating instantly.
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What’s wrong? She asked herself but did not have an answer.
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She walked back to the living room and sat on the sofa, at the same time she heard very sharp screams from her pets.
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It’s Lilia, Phablis, and Sarcrown!
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She ran to the window and saw her father was holding a luminous-energy gun, shooting at the three little pigs. Lilia, the sow, tried to protect her two children; she stood at the very front and used her body to cover two piggies.
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“Daddy!” Essimmia screamed.
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She ran out of the house into a silver world. The accumulation of snow had already been one foot high.
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Her father turned his head at her, his gaze was as cold as ice; it was the first time he did not smile while he was looking at her.
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He raised up his arm straightly and pointed at her with the muzzle of the gun.
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As if she saw a picture of herself, lying on the snow, both her left arm and right leg were shot. Snow kept falling and falling.
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Essimmia screamed again. She ran to Lilia and hugged her in two arms tightly, then carried the sow running back to the house. Phablis and Sarcrown followed her.
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She locked the door as soon as two piggies getting in.
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“Daddy…” said Essimmia full of disbelieve.
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“Essimmia…” a very feeble voice called her consciousness back from her arms.
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“Lilia!” Essimmia screeched.
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“Just put me on the table…” said the sow.
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Essimmia listened to her. She put the sow on the dining table; her white dress was all wet because of the melting snow.
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Lilia struggled to stand up, but she could not. She lost three of her legs in the shooting before. She was not bleeding because of the extreme high temperature of the luminous-energy; in that case the temperature could even evaporate the blood and burned the gunshot wounds scorched.
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Her legs were totally snapped; now she only had her back right leg left.
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Phablis’ front left leg was also snapped totally; when Essimmia put him on the table he could not stop squealing.
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“Oh, no…Lilia, would you be alright?” Essimmia could not hold her tears.
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“Don’t worry…Essimmia, we are monsters, you remember?” said the sow. She tried to comfort the little girl although her voice was that quite and weak.
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“Why would this happen?” asked Essimmia. She wanted to shriek but her throat was so dry and so hurtful; her voice turned so husky.
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“Daddy…you lied to me!” she cried from deep within, with that much of pain and sorrow.
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Why would this happen? Just as her dream had foreshadowed.
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Essimmia remembered what her nightmare was now – her father killed her.
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Why? Why did her father want to kill her? Although things did not go as her dream went, but why did her father still aim the gun at her?
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Daddy, is this what the adults always called - betrayal?
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