narration (6)

Neko is burdened with the responsibility of caring for a baby. He walks through a snowy field, hoping that the baby is already dead. However, he finds a cross made of sticks and starts digging. Who the girl would become were that there would be other babies, a burden that lay heavy on his small shoulders. Neko strode through the killing field with purpose, the snow spilling over the top of his boots with every step. Trembling and anxious to be done with his errand, he scanned the ground. Maybe she was mistaken, he thought. Maybe the baby was already dead. Then he saw it, just as she said, two sticks, stark and black, laid in a simple cross on top of the snow. Neko stared down at it for only a moment, just one, then he began to dig.