Rue Gracefall

The next day, I decided to take a more careful approach toward my goals. I still had time, maybe not too much of it. But I had it.

I still wanted to read that book and learn things. But I can't take the risk of worrying about my mother. I can go towards the shelf but on the way back, I can't climb the bed. So that is a big problem if my mother found me lying down in bed every night then she might die out of guilt.

To prevent this I need to wait till I am able to climb back to bed and my mother won't notice a thing.

Also I can try reading the book in the day but as I am still a six month old baby my mother won't leave me out of her sight for even a second.

I need to think about what I can do to solve this problem. 'Ahhhhhh, why can't a baby have some privacy and learn magic' I thought in my mind.

' I need to wait for sometime and grow this bug body of mine' I decided. I am in severe need to upgrade my "Cockroach crawl" skill, so I can move fast and do things more secretly.

" He's so cute" I was pulled out of my thoughts by the voice of a woman. Well there were lots of women all dressed elegantly like they were at some kind of party. Well it was a party. With the things I can understand and by hearing from my parents I came to understand that today is some kind of naming ceremony for me.

So I finally will get a name, strangely my parents haven't named me yet. It was weird always being a child, munchkin and other cute names that came to my parents mind.

" You are so lucky Martha" another woman said to my mother. And today I found out that my mother's name was Martha. As my mother and father always talk with nicknames between them and I never went outside of my house, I never got a chance to learn my parents'names.

Well I was curious to learn my parents'name and I was more curious about what name I will get.

It should be something worthy of my charm and unparalleled handsomeness. Am I being a narcissist here?

Nah I am that handsome.

While I was being delusional with myself, my mother pushed through the crowd of charming women and brought me towards a man who was downed in white and golden robes. The man was a prime example of baldness, his head shining like a mirror. Well he was bald to a different degree. If he looked into the mirror the mirror might see its own reflection.

Well enough talking about old bald men. Next my mother placed me in some kind of altar. The old man came up to me and looked at me with a gentle smile and brought out a wand from his robes. This wand had a red ruby on top of it and it was shining with a strange light.

' Am I some kind of sacrifice?' This thought came to mind and suddenly the bald priest chanted a spell and a blinding light filled the room and it soon turned deep violet and changed colour to bright red.

Everyone in the big hall was mesmerised for some time looking at these blinding lights.

" This child is a bit special, I can't look into his fate." Everyone was brought out from their thoughts from the priest's voice.

They all looked at the priest with a surprised expression.

" I can't see his future or his path but that means this child will surely do something great." The priest took a pause after saying this and looked at the crowd.

He continued " There are many people whose fate couldn't be seen and they all turned out to be great and powerful in one way or another" Priest had some deep meaning to his words while saying that.

" Now as this child is either loved by fate or loathed by fate I shall bestow him a worthy name" Priest again took a dramatic pause and looked at the crowd.

Then the priest said in a loud voice " His name shall be"

"RUE GRACEFALL"….