Book of Bulmash, chapter 94
Chapter 94
- The mother pressed her clasped hands to her mouth in uncertainty.
- Was this The Day That Had Been Foretold, the one her youngest son's teachers had promised during his darkest days:
- "Those qualities that maketh him impossible now, they shall transform him into a leader of men and women when he hath grown up."
- Or, as was more likely, was this morn the Final Sign of the Apocalypse?
- For the eight-year-old had made only minor demands on his mother's patience as he readied himself for school.
- The child had broken fast with a reasonably nutritious meal, AS REQUESTED;
- The child had NOT pushed his mother to the brink of murder by raising an unholy noise before the crack of dawn;
- Verily, the child had been... quiet.
- Lastly, the child had initiated an amusing conversation with his elder brother and mother, concerning the creepiness of the holiday ditty "Santa Claus is Coming to Town."
- Were it not for the earliness of the hour, the mother would have poured herself a celebratory drink of unsurpassed alcoholic strength.
- Instead, she reminded herself that this sterling behavior would probably fade away with the morning mist.
- Yet when the child asked the mother to retrieve a book forgotten at home, she hastened to deliver the requested tome.
