The Godsend Backfire: The Beginning by Harold Straugh (best e reader for academics TXT) 📗

“I have clothes for you my friend!” He said and dropped them by my feet.  I got up, picking up the clothes as I done so.

“I thank you!” I said and looked at the garments. There were coarse pants, that were white, red, knee-high boots, a button up, white long-sleeved shirt and long, white cloth. I looked at it oddly.

“You will use that to wrap your face and head, just leave your eyes exposed, which, I could only find these” he said and tossed me two, red glass disc, “Here I will help you,” he said and started wrapping my face with the white fabric. As he wrapped around my nose, then the top of my head, he placed the two, red discs over each eye.  It was uncomfortable, but I understood Al Hubarb’s concern.

“Are you staying, and wanting me to go to the Hall?” he asked.

“Yes, I figured a few more nights wouldn’t hurt one bit.”

I took the garments off, back down to the original white clothing I was sent down in. White seemed to be my color. I finally went into Al Hubarb’s hut where his wife, pregnant, greeted me. He took my clothes and put them on a woven chest.

“This is my wife, Arlenius, we are due anytime for our baby. Something tells me you’ve never felt a pregnant belly before. Something also tells me you’ve never touched a woman before,” Al Hubarb laughed.

“Al, that was not nice,” she playfully slapped him on the shoulder, “Here!” she said and took my hand, and gave me an odd stare, “your skin feels so hard,” then she placed my hand on her stomach.

I instantly felt a heartbeat, then I heard the heartbeat.  I felt something deep within me and shut my eyes. Suddenly, a picture formed in my mind, I could see the baby, so tiny, and horrible looking, in the fetal position.  I could see the blood flowing from the umbilical cord into the baby. I smiled, then I noticed the baby’s eyes, they were open and looking at me. It kicked and that’s when I noticed it was a boy.  It kicked again, and I took my hand off.

“That was amazing,” I said.

“Did you feel it?”

“Feel it?....I saw him,” I said.

“Him? I’m having a boy?” Al Hubarb said with excitement in his voice.

Arlenius put her hand over her mouth with tears of joy in her eyes, “Are you sure?”

“Do you not see the baby when you touch her stomach?”

“No, you have a gift, you are a Godsend,” Arlenius said.

I figured they would taken back by my gifts, maybe even turn on me, but Derium’s and Mylicious’s actions were making things good for me.

“I’m going to give birth anytime soon, maybe you will be here for it,” Arlenius said.

“Maybe I will be, but if my brother’s actions keep up, I will have to leave.”

“Brothers? You’re related to those creatures? Where did you all come from?”

I hesitated, then spoke, “Now isn’t the time, maybe one day I will return and tell you everything,” I said.

There wasn’t much more said so I left the hut, the sun was setting and for the night there wasn’t any commotion from my brothers.  The night went quick, I spent it leaning up against Wretch, staring off into the sky.  When the morning came, Al Hubarb was up early and came my way with my clothes.

“Go in the hut, change into just these, my wife won’t look I promise,” he joked.

I took the clothes and walked to his hut where his wife had hung up a sheet and told me to go behind it.  There I stripped down, completely naked, my white, marble like skin was beautiful.  I took notice this time of penis as it rested to the left of my scrotum. I turned around to grab my pants and heard a gasp. I looked up and there stood Al Hubarb’s wife, looking, like I was told she wouldn’t do.  She quickly put the sheet back and I quickly got dressed.  I used a piece of twine to tie my long, white hair into a pony tail and tuck it under my shirt.  I then wrapped my face as Al Hubarb had shown me.  I put the glass pieces in and everything turned red.  I walked out and looked at Al Hubarb’s wife and just nodded at her and said nothing.

Al Hubarb was waiting for me when I walked outside. Thing’s went from a dark red, to a bright red, “Are you ready, we have half a day walk head of us.”

“Half a day, I can use my speed…..” I went to say but Al Hubarb interrupted.

“NO! you can’t just show up places, I’m sure that’s what your brothers are doing. If you show up suddenly somewhere, people will get suspicious” he said, a little haste in his voice.

“Can’t I just go to the outskirts and slow down before I get there?”

“Once more, no, it’s busy, people will notice if you just show up, just trust me, plus you can take in some of the sights, you’ll enjoy it.”

I nodded then called for Wretch, “WRETCH!?” he came running towards me and stopped.  Al Hubarb took one of his donkeys as well.  He said it was for the way back because he always ate too much at the Hall and didn’t feel like walking back and then loaded up with the donkey with fish and meat,  He wrapped his face as well then spoke, “We offer peace to Gomorrah, they will have stuff we like, it’s not like the bazaar where we pay, we trade for peace as me and Abakanazar say.”

“Abakanazar?” I asked.

“He’s over Gomorrah like I am over Sodom.  We often trade goods and try to keep