Cedar Sweep Pegasus

Crickets roared.

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Malguk would not sleep.

She cried terribly. Eyes that were more than late to opening, and now especially so, they locked tight. She cried until her lungs emptied themselves of breath. A wail untamed, oh, and how her heart fired into a rise and fall. It would not end. As if the world forbade a night of mothers sleep. A trembling bottom lip, shaky and breaking. Nothing would sooth her, and she sobbed until her own hiccups and breath upset her. When the darkness came, their daughter stirred. Every night had been bad with Malguk, but this one had to have been the worst.