Thane's Mother walked into the room expecting to tell Thane it was time for bed, but the room was empty. Thane wasn't there. She searched the whole house growing more and more frantic as she looked through empty rooms. Where was he? All of the sudden she heard a piercing howl coming from the direction of the river. She knew that howl it was the howl of their dog Rudy, when he was in pain.
She ran down to the river using the light of the full moon. She would have to hurry. She could already see rain clouds casting shadows on the ground before her. As she drew closer to the river she saw two figures on the ground. She ran to them. There they were, Thane was laying there his eyes closed and Rudy was right by his side his head in his paws whimpering. “Thane its time to come home” she said. He didn't respond. “Thane its time to go home and go to bed, so you can get up with the sun.” By now the clouds had completely covered the moon and it was starting to drizzle. Thane made no move to comply with his mother's request. In fact he hadn't moved at all.
Terror and pure horror came over Shiva as it suddenly dawned on her. Thane wasn't breathing. She knelt down by her son and pressed her ear to his chest. Now she knew why Rudy was whimpering. Thane was dead. She would not bring herself to accept this. Her son was dead. She couldn't bear to think about it. The next moment she was running back to the house. Screaming at the top of her lungs and tripping over tree roots. She no longer had the aid of the moon and it was now pouring. She kept having flash backs. One memory in particular filled her mind. It was right after the funeral of her husband, Kallen. Thane had come up to her with his tear stained brave face on. “Mommy,” he asked, “was Daddy a bad man?”
“No, my little bunny” she had said in a hunnied voice, breaking into tears and throwing her arms around him.
“Then why did Daddy die?” Thane asked confusion crossing his face.
“It was his time to die.”
“Mommy?”
“Yes?”
“Are you going to die?”
“Yes, one day.”
“No! Mommy I don't want you to die. I won't let you die. If you die I'll miss you. I miss Daddy.” His brave face had dissipated and he was now sobbing into her shoulder. She tightened her embrace. In a small muffled voice she heard him say “I love you, Mommy”
“I love you too my little bunny,” she now whispered into the darkness. She had tripped over a rock and had fallen on the ground to befuddled to get up. Tears and rain washed down her face. When she finally got up and started walking it was a slow and stumbling walk. By the time she got back to the house she was muddy. Rudy had stayed with the dead body of her son.
Soon the sky was alight with flashes of lighting and thunderous clashes of thunder. The phone was dead. She decided she would have to drive to the police station. As she drove, she listened to classical music, trying to calm herself. Some thing moved in the shadows of her peripheral vision. Then she was swerving off the road as a frightened deer looking for a place to get out of the rain jumped in front of the car. As she ran off the road a lighting bolt struck a tree in front of her it came crashing down on top of the car and her. There was no escape.
A few weeks later the dead bodies of Shiva, Thane and Rudy Alemeth were found. Rudy had died of starvation; the dog never left Thane's side. Investigators never found the killer of Thane.
