Chapter 100: Endless Chain(3)
The task of removing the wrap while not damaging the big painting that his sister had made with her trusty crayons, in a kind of black that was slightly metallic in its tone, something that she seemed to really like, perhaps due to her silver hair, that does sometimes do that after all, it was kind of a common occurrence to like things that fit with ones own body.
Either way, after using a knife and taking some rather experienced and well-thought-out cuts to the thing that resembled a big box wrapped in the white paper, something simple but understandable, after all not everything had to be of some crazy colour, and perhaps his sister had already exclaimed that she wanted to do something like this.
Cades however couldn't stop smiling, despite him hearing a weird sound in his head, and having some kind of stabbing pain in his left hand and now, for some reason, also his right lower back half of the right leg.. quite specific, but that's how it was..for some reason.
It took Cades about seven minutes until he finally got rid of the entire thing while cutting out the painting, that as previously mentioned seemed to depict him and her, sister and brother together, ending up with putting it aside for now, intending to later put it into a frame, something he had quite an obsession with back then.
Finally, the entire wrap was gone, and as he saw what was underneath his eyes began to glow even brighter than they had before as he thought about the painting and saw the proud smile an childish laughter of his sister.
It was indeed a big wooden box, one that hge recognized easily, after all he had wished for this thing since many months now, it was decorated with a beautiful measuring tool engraved atop the still elegantly sealed box, one of those that resembled triangles but didn't have a bottom, it consisted of two beautifully intertwined parts and it was undoubtably very expensive and high grade to get for his birthday, for a child's birthday.
And as he took it and smiled brightly he could see how, just for a moment, the bright and happy look on his mom's face vanished and she looked towards his dad, who now wore the very same look as she did, a look of great worry and concern, the very same look that he received the first few days after he tried to cut off one of his own limbs and had to go to the doctor for it.