This was not the first time she had seen him in her dreams. unlike the others, he was calm and had a broad smile on his face each time he caress her hair, My daughter he will say then vanish, leaving behind his charming smile.
Veronica was 8, tall and beautiful, and had a dimple on her left cheek which spread each time she smiled.
"You smile just like your father," her mum would say. "He died while he was at war, I was 8 months pregnant with you then". Several times Veronica had inquired to see his picture but the only one picture the mum had of him had washed off. She was anxious to know the man who visits her in her dream and why he calls her my daughter.
"Mum, what does my dad look like?" She asked one morning after being visited by this strange man.
"Why do you ask?" Her mum inquired
"There's this man that visits me often in my dreams and calls me his daughter," she said. Her mum became eager to know about this visitor at night. She doesn't believe stories of the dead coming to see their loved ones, but coming from her little daughter who knows nothing, she became anxious.
"He has a broad and charming smile, he's tall and wears a necklace with the name beloved inscribed on it, he also has gap teeth, I see that each time he smiles". She stopped when she noticed tears rolling down her mum's cheeks.
"What's wrong mum?" She asked, her mum walked away without saying a word.
Three weeks later, Ella, Veronica's mum, wondered how she was going to prevent her daughter from facing the same fate as her. While she was younger, almost the same age as her daughter, she was often visited by this strange man, she remember how he looks like and also called her my daughter , a bad omen the elders had told her. Now she was going to do something to prevent the same event occurring twice.
"What can I do to stop this?" She inquired from an elder who was believed to know a secret about immortals visiting humans.
"The chain had already begun, there's nothing you can do to stop it, it's up to her to decide when she's 18, her decision will determine if it would be pass to her daughter or ends with her"