👻 A parent calms down the child after a nightmare

When Devin woke up from his nap crying, Syx panicked. He suddenly regretted claiming he was prepared for this. He didn’t feel so at all. He looked up at Minion helplessly, but his fish just made hand gestures at him, miming picking Devin up.

“Well of course that!” he hissed softly back. Picking the blue baby up and cradling him to his chest Syx murmured, “Shhh shhhh it’s okay. Uncle Syx is here. I have you.”

With another helpless look to Minion, he starting rocking and humming, not knowing what else to do. It started as the lullabies Daddy used to sing but morphed into something older, something from his mother. He didn’t think about it as he hummed, couldn’t. But Minion’s eyes went wide and his mouth dropping into a little ‘o’.