C7 Four Years

"Mommy, what is outside?" A soft glutinous voice sounded. A three-year-old baby girl stumbly asked the young woman beside her.

The woman smiled gently at her baby. She remembered she once used to ask her mother this same question.

Looking out the dark sky outside the tower, the same view as it has always been. She sighed.

"Sweetheart, the world is scary