Unexpected Miracle - original fiction
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libra_travellerUnexpected Miracle
What was expected to be a long and fruitless night turned into something miraculous. A bird’s cry was the first indicator that she wasn’t alone. It sounded startled as if it too was expecting to be alone. As she stumbled her way through the debris of scattered branches and leaves, Emily wondered if her lost brother Adam was nearby and the hours in which she waded would come to an end.
Following the sound of that bird’s cry, Emily came upon something quite different than she expected. Well, she did find her brother, who had been missing two nights, but he wasn’t as injured as she had envisioned in her mind. A broken leg and perhaps a concussion evidenced by the dry blood on his forehead were obvious, but he was aware. No, what so surprised Emily that she almost sat right down, was the baby her brother was carefully holding.
As Emily ran to her brother’s side, fear rushed into her mind. Though extremely happy to see her brother not dead, to instead find a dying or dead infant was not on her list of things she ever wanted to experience. As she reached his side, she found the baby’s eyes open. It was not a newborn at least, she could see. But the child seemed too weak to cry.
Adam rushed to explain how he’d found the baby crying the night before and that it was in his rush towards the crying sound that he fell. He had woken up with a throbbing head and broken leg but pulled himself to the child’s side. Through the night and day and this night he had tried to comfort and keep the baby warm, desperately wishing to not have broken his cell-phone in the fall.
It was at this point in his story that Emily’s rational brain worked and she called 911 for help. She didn’t know if she should take the baby to meet up with them or stay with her brother who she’d finally found. Luckily for her, the emergency service woman on the phone assured her to stay exactly where she was.
Emily stayed and talked to her brother who had scared her so. But after they all made it to the hospital, after his bone had been set, she could only have pride in Adam for rescuing that baby. She fell asleep in the chair at his side, smiling.
What was expected to be a long and fruitless night turned into something miraculous. A bird’s cry was the first indicator that she wasn’t alone. It sounded startled as if it too was expecting to be alone. As she stumbled her way through the debris of scattered branches and leaves, Emily wondered if her lost brother Adam was nearby and the hours in which she waded would come to an end.
Following the sound of that bird’s cry, Emily came upon something quite different than she expected. Well, she did find her brother, who had been missing two nights, but he wasn’t as injured as she had envisioned in her mind. A broken leg and perhaps a concussion evidenced by the dry blood on his forehead were obvious, but he was aware. No, what so surprised Emily that she almost sat right down, was the baby her brother was carefully holding.
As Emily ran to her brother’s side, fear rushed into her mind. Though extremely happy to see her brother not dead, to instead find a dying or dead infant was not on her list of things she ever wanted to experience. As she reached his side, she found the baby’s eyes open. It was not a newborn at least, she could see. But the child seemed too weak to cry.
Adam rushed to explain how he’d found the baby crying the night before and that it was in his rush towards the crying sound that he fell. He had woken up with a throbbing head and broken leg but pulled himself to the child’s side. Through the night and day and this night he had tried to comfort and keep the baby warm, desperately wishing to not have broken his cell-phone in the fall.
It was at this point in his story that Emily’s rational brain worked and she called 911 for help. She didn’t know if she should take the baby to meet up with them or stay with her brother who she’d finally found. Luckily for her, the emergency service woman on the phone assured her to stay exactly where she was.
Emily stayed and talked to her brother who had scared her so. But after they all made it to the hospital, after his bone had been set, she could only have pride in Adam for rescuing that baby. She fell asleep in the chair at his side, smiling.
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