I now found myself in a dimly lit room. It definitely felt sudden, going from calming clouds and endless blue to this modest room. There were two people in front of me, both crouched and looking at me cheerfully. One was an old lady. She was visibly exhausted, seeing the sweat running through her face and her tired eyes, yet she was still carefully examining me. The other was a man of large stature with brown hair and a beard. He was grinning warmly towards me. If I had to guess, he was my father. The old lady uttered something to herself in a language i hadn't heard before giving me to the man next to her. The man picked me, smiled and quickly moved to where the person who was to be my mother was lying. She was beautiful. Golden hair, turquoise eyes, nice facial features. My father wasn't that bad either, but it was nothing compared to her. My mother looked at me with warmth and motherly care, as she embraced me in her arms and started conversing with my father. I was curious what they were saying, but i couldn't really understand them. After a while, i started to feel awfully tired and quickly fell asleep.
A month has passed since I was born and let me tell you, having to breastfeed from a stranger just so that i don't starve to death is pretty traumatic, since unlike some degenerates who would be enjoying themselves, i have a conscience and I know that this is inherently wrong considering my previous life. And this is not even scratching the surface of how traumatic and embarrassing not being able to control your excretory system and shitting yourself multiple times a day is.
Two more months have passed. Nothing's changed really, except from the fact that my new father stopped appearing after about two weeks of my birth. To be honest, spending entire weeks barely able to move and without anything to do can become pretty boring. In that time all I really did was plan on what I would do with my new life. I knew that magic existed since the god used a spell to summon me and following the classic isekai logic, some kind of empowered swordsmanship should also exist. The world should also probably be around the middle ages technology-wise. These are only speculations, of course. I can't confirm them until I can at least move. If I had to list my goals, it would look something like this:
First, I'd like to learn some magic or swordsmanship, whatever I'm more adept at. It would be cooler to be a mage, but if i suck at it, then swordsmanship it is. I would love to visit a dungeon, if those even exist in this place. If I'm going to, I would like to attend school of my own free will. I don't want to be forced to attend lessons again like in my previous life. This is the only hypothetical goal, because if it works like in a normal isekai only nobles have the money to go there. No, even back on earth before the 19th century, to go to school you had to pay quite a lot, which only the rich could so the commoners would be left uneducated for the most part.
Do I even have anything else I want to do? I'm not even sure. I would like to live a generally peaceful life. Yes, it would need to have some action, but I would like to live peacefully. Not bound by anything. Not bound by anyone. Yes, that's the life I would like to live in this new land.
All this thinking has made me sleepy again. Being a baby is quite annoying but what can we do.
I've been trying to at least start to crawl, and after 6 months, I can now crawl around the house.
My mother isn't really concerned with me crawling around. I found it a bit strange, because i thought parents normally didn't let their babies out of their sight. But i am not complaining. It's pretty convenient, since i can explore the house freely.
This house isn't really all that luxurious. It is spacious, yes, but it is more like what you would expect from the average fantasy home. Shabby, wooden furniture, a stone stove in the corner of the kitchen and tableware all crudely made from wood. I couldn't really get to see most of the other rooms aside from the kitchen and the dining area, since all the doors were closed and i couldn't push those doors open, so exploring the entirety of the house will have to wait for a bit more.
I really want to look outside, to go outside, to see this new world for myself. But the doors are closed. I could look at the sky from the window, sure, but I can't tell anything from just staring at the sky. I can't see what this place looks like, what the people here are like, what awaited me. It's moments like this that make me envy my past self.
I still occasionally try to push doors open so I can see what lies beyond them. And if there is one door I want to open, it is the exit door.
A few days later, I saw that the exit door was left slightly open. I approached it and tried to push it again but it was to no avail. I was a little disappointed, but compared to the previous times, this time i can actually see from the small opening between the door and the door frame.
There was a small garden outside, encircled by a stone wall. It looks gigantic, but that's probably because i was just a baby. I couldn't see a lot beyond the wall, aside from some mountains in the distance. I tried to stand up to see beyond the wall, but I fell back down. I looked outside again and this time, i saw my mother, swinging a sword.
I already knew she was outside. I didn't expect her to be training though. I hadn't even noticed that she had a sword. I had so many questions. Eh, they'll probably remain unanswered for a while, so its better not to dwell on them. I watched my mom train for a while, but before long, she noticed me.
She came and picked me up.
"You like watching your mama train, sweetheart?" she said with a big smile and hugged me. "Anyway. Let's go eat lunch, shall we?"