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Titles and Student Names in: Aller
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Caption Text in: Aller Italic, 16 pt
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married). She holds the baby against her chest, touching her nose gently to her son’s, her eyes shut. The baby lifts his small hand, and strokes the mother’s cheek–startling her so her eyes fly open. She looks down at her pride and joy, her labor of love,
and screams. No, not because of the eyes, they shine like two sapphires–but her baby boy is smiling at her. A toothless grin–toothless except for the two sharp incisors. Everyone in town knew it could happen, never warned the young couple, but they knew. No one spoke about how obvious it was, that the child had been conceived in the Lake. It hadn’t happened in a while, new people rarely moved into Hella, and everyone who lived here knew that the Lake was trouble. Some say the Huldufólk cursed it, to keep it as their own and away from humans. Others say the beautiful Huldra intercepts and curses the people who choose to trespass in the Lake. The last time the Lake lured young lovers into its depths, the mother birthed twins. As perfect as they were deadly, they caused more trouble the older they got. Talked their way out of every execution.
Now it has happened again, and the doctor can hardly keep eye contact with the parents who stare in horror at him. They think there is a mistake. But the only mistake is the one they made. The doctor can already see the fear disappearing, with each glance at the child the parents' gaze soften. In their eyes the sharp teeth disappear, and even to the doctor the child's eyes become normal. The child ceased to be a threat–for the time being–but things had a strange way of changing in Hella. As Don Balk and his wife would soon find out.
Emile pauses outside the modestly built hospital that is the focus of most of the village's tax money. It sits in the center of all the small wooden cottages, it looks like someone went forward in time and brought it back from the future. It's the only part of the modern world that has touched Hella. Emile and Don stroll down the dirt streets, Emile holding their child. A dark storm is at the edge of their minds, flashing bolts of clarity that are still not strong enough to wake the from the stupor their child has put them in. Don and Emile have decided to name him Alrekur, neither of them know why they like the name or where they heard it but they both agree on it. The name is Icelandic for "all powerful" or "ruler of all".
Down In The Village