05. A frantic drive

Ripple: A frantic drive
Mostly a calm baby, the one thing he could not be parted from was the mysterious book that was with him upon arrival. The symbols inside seemed to make no sense. Even the aforementioned symbol that was both on the book’s cover and on the baby’s arm (in what appears to be more of a birthmark than a tattoo) had no known meaning.
Whenever the book was taken from the child’s side he would scream inconsolably, almost as if in pain. At night he would cling to it as if in a frantic drive to get closer to the object. As such, the book went with him wherever he went.