How to take care of your baby sphinx

It was a baby sphinx in front of me,it was crying like a human would when born. I take the baby with me and went back home, it was a chilly night, the beautiful full moon up in the sky and the stars surrouding it were shining bright in the sky.I opened the door of the house and I saw my father and mother awake with an tired face. I guess the loud crying also wake them up, huh.

"Alex? Why were you out at this hour. we heard someone crying so we was about to go out and see what it was." Said my mother with a worried look.

"Hey! Alex what is that you are carrying? A cat?"Said my father looking interrested in the sphinx.

What should I do? I didn't told my parents about the surprise egg I bought from Lardo. Should I be honest or should I say it's a coincidence?

"Actually father it's a sphinx, you see last time Lardo came here I bought this egg Lardo found in his travels he said it could be from a chimera to a drakon egg. it was really cheap so I bought it since I thought that I could get a drakon easily, but...."

The truth is that I was really curious about what monster would come out from the egg, a sphinx, huh? I really wasn't expecting that, it came just like the spanish inquisition. If I'm not mistaken a sphinx is one of the inteligent mosters.

A inteligent monster is a racional monster that can think, feel and differentiate good from evil. Exemples of inteligent mosters are goblins, sphinxes, fairies and vampires. Sphinxes are known to be very inteligent, twisted and cruel on those it irritates and angers.But if I can raise it like a family maybe it can use it smarts on my favor.

"I see a sphinx, huh? It is known as a vicious monster, I heard that a genral in the past got a sphinx loyal to him and made it serve him as a strategist, in the and the sphinx was killed because it was mistaken for a monster by a soldier. What do you think of it, dear?" Mother said that and looked to farther asking him his opinion on the matter.

"If that's the case why don't we raise it? It can became a huge help to Alex when he grow up. We can say it's a tamed monster and let it go with him to the Knight's Collage."

Wait! Since when will I go the knghts collage, I don't want to became a vassal of some lord or something. I want to became a mercenary and see the world. Since there isn't an adventurers guild in this world I will band an mercenary clan of my own and see the world. Well not that I can say anithing, connections are needed for a mercenary so let's think of it as an investiment , yeah an investiment, totaly not forced at all, yeah all part of the plan,umu, umu.

"So how about I name it? Since it's a sphinx how about Cleo? Nah, that's boring now that I think of it, how about Sonia?"

If I'm not mistaken Sonia is a word similar to the world dreaming in portuguese. I don't know if it's a good name or not but I'm satisfied with Sonia.

"Umu, it seems like my son has good tastes in names just like his father! Hahahaha!" My father said while laughing loudly, I try to stop him because it might wake up Sonia but...

"MYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MIAAAAAAAAAAAA MUUAAAAAAA!!!!"

Sonia was crying a lot, I wouldn't know if it was because of father or something else. I try to calm her down but I'm still six years old and with no experience with babies even in the past life.

"Oh did this big bad old man scare you did him came here let me hug you. Pass her to me Alex. Yoshi yoshi here yoshi yoshi. See, all calmed down, oh look at her she is even trying to lick my neck, is she hungry?"

Mother has calmed down Sonia but it seems that the baby is hungry. But, what does sphinx eat? they are part human part lion and with eagle wings, so they are mammals thay lay eggs? So should I get some goat milk? If I'm not mistaken grown sphinx are carnivores, it will be a bit expensive since meat is not an everyday food since it is either game meat or poultry, sometimes pig is eaten but it depends on the occasion.

"Should I get some goat milk? I think there is some from in the cheese house."

I since milk spoils fast people normally make it into cheese since it lasts longer, the problem is that goat milk smells bad so the cheese ands up with a even worse smell, but it's not something that makes it unbearable, that's because goat milk picks absorbs the smell of blace it is, and since the goat house is filled with goat feces and pee let's just say it's not a good smell.

"Yeah do that I will take the baby crib that you used when you were a baby, can I put it in your bedroom, Alex? We don't have enought space in ours."

I bet they just don't want to be the firsts to the with the baby, but ok it was me who bought the egg in the first place, so I will take full responsability. I think...What can I do I'm just six, ok!!

As I went to the cheese house I hear the doors from the other rooms of the house open. There was Hal and Felicia with sleepy eyes wanting to know what was all the noise. I guess father's laugh and Sonia's crying wake them up. I didn't have time to explain everything to them so I'm gonna let mother explain, I need to get milk, babies don't wait after all.

I went to the to the cheese house with a candle in my hand to iluminate the way, since the night in this world are very dark even with a full moon in the sky. Since there is no lamppost, since the oil to maintain it would be very expensive in this little village of Balnuk.

I went back to the house where my sister was holding Sonia in her arms and Hal was going back to sleep. I entered the house and gived the goat milk to Sonia but while holding her in my arms after I picked her up from Felicia.

While she was drinking the milk me seemed to opened her eyes a bit for a moment but closed it quickly, maybe to see what it was drinking or to identify the mother, I don't know. There is a lot of things I don't know about this world, even if it was me who created it. Father came with the crib and and puted it in my room, with the sphinx alimented and sleeping I puted her in the crib and went to sleep, but the sun was already rising for another day when it all ended. Maybe I can ask mother to let me skip magic training today. I'm sle...ep..y~.