[ WP ] Begin with an unusual birth of a baby .

His blackened hands reached towards the opening of her womb in a rapacious manner. 
 
 `` Mmm... easy... yes...'' he giggled feebly, as if he was nervous, but his eyes were wide and unblinking, they had a pathological quality, frenetic and occupied. `` Gent-ly... hehe... Twinkle, twinkle.'' He rocked on the balls of his feet, she lay on the wet cobble in front of him, her face a bloodless white, pained and exhausted. `` Come on, little one...'' his gaunt fingers were impelled by the bloodied head of the child... 
 
 `` Get o!'' she screamed after a pang of maternal instinct, and swiped at his meagre face. In shock he scuttled back an arms length and sniffled at her from behind his elbow. He was smaller than a human, a puny figure, his skin was worn as if polluted by a thousand year smog and his hair was as thin as cobweb. 
 
 `` Mmm... hehe...'' he looked towards the head of the child, his own reflection glistened from the crown. The child's body came forward from utero as its arms pulled itself through, towards the puny figure's body that no longer rocked on the cobble, but was still. A nebulous air developed between the child and the puny figure, the woman now lay dead beside them. The imp and the child now seemed to be drawn to each other, an umbilical pull, heavenly, magnetically, the child brought himself up to the imp's chin and bit on it with a bite harder than the imp could ever imagine. The imp cried in pain but the child continued to eat, and so he would until the imp died, and the cobble dried. 
 

