"It… it's just a tiny booboo, okay?"
Katherine's breaths were almost as loud as Karina's growing sniffles. Her stretched hands showed that she truly wanted to rush and hug her daughter; but still, her legs did not move even a single inch.
"M… mommy?" Karina then slowly sat up from the ground, the scratch on her knee, already healed and was just covered with dirt and mud. Still, even with the wound gone, Karina's face was just beginning to twist from the short pain that suddenly terrorized her leg; her unnaturally wide lips, turning into a frown.
"It… it hurts, mommy," Karina's voice began to tremble; and soon, the grass, the stones, and everything around her started to float in the air.
And as soon as Katherine saw this, the only thing she could really do was grit her teeth; her eyebrows, also trembling as she stretched her hands to the side– and as soon as she did so, the ground beneath her opened up, swallowing her inside…