31 The Lady of Trarko House

Lara Trarko had been having these dreams since she was a wee little girl running around in the fields behind her home. Since the time when her beloved nanny Mother Stuttin was still alive and well and cared for her. The dreams always involved the same dark-haired boy. In the beginning, she would see the boy as a little baby lying on a rough cot bawling his eyes out. It was always the same boy. There was a man too but for some reason, the man's face was always hazy and she couldn't make out his features clearly. But the boy she knew. Then one night the dreams changed. Still the same boy but he was no longer a bawling baby. He was a laughing toddler now. Toddling gleefully through a room destroying everything in his path while the figure of a man chased him about also laughing. These dreams again continued for a while and Lara, only a child herself, barely thought anything of it. Matter of fact, it was a wonder she even remembered it at all but she did. And though she couldn't rememb