Eric saw that the apparition, well, it did seem like a woman at first and still was — however, he was getting the feeling, this thing was no human woman. Well, should she let her take him? Was she the lady of the lake? Who ferried souls to an afterlife? Was it his time to die?
Well, the young eight year old boy seemed more than ready to just quit and die. Though, something in him, a strange voice, both his conscience and something else, said, what about Diana, Jessica and maybe, even Farhan? Should he not stay and grow to be a man so he could protect them and repay them? For all they had done for him?
If he left now all the things Diana had endured would have been for naught. Would not have made sense. She had given massive amounts of her life for them. Though, in his eyes, she did not have to at all. She could have send them to an orphanage. She could have sent them to the social services system.
However, she did not do this. She became their Mother, in both all essences of the word, and duty, even if she was obligated to do ANY of that. So, what was he doing? Giving up? He knew he was to blame for his father's death. He knew....if he had not gotten infected, Tobias would be here.
Maybe, maybe not...he was still a young boy. Sometimes, he was just angry he could not control many things. He had been loved and treated with love. His family was far from perfect even then. The fact his conservative father, broke free from his Luddite like family, to marry someone from the city, had always been a sore topic.
They had no other relatives and were forced to work hand and foot, to provide for him. Even as a child, when he was three, seeing his mother cry and stress over loans, always made him unhappy. It made him realise how much of a burden being a family was and without the help of others. He had known, yet as a child was guilty of wanting things. This toy and that, this and those things — the rush of happiness, getting something new.
Now, he would n
