(Rose)
I wake up sore. I look around cautiously before moving.
Sothing is not right.
She did not greet as I woke up, and that is sothing like soone showing on ti at work every day for twenty years suddenly arriving late.
It’s worriso at the very least.
I don’t see anything suspicious around us. The morning is colder than usual but alright.
An instinct like a voice inside my head is yelling at not to move or breathe.
It’s her. She’s terrified.
Sothing ominous is close by and she thinks we should make ourselves invisible. I try my best, facing apparently nothing but beginning to be afraid too.
A minute or an hour passes in silence. I’m so still I’m almost blending inside the landscape.
How long should I wait? She speaks directly into my instincts, not with words but feelings.
She asks to stop using words. She begs to think as less as possible for now...
What could be so frightening to a being like her I wonder. Sothing we have to hide from.
Sothing alive. Sothing obviously not human. Sothing that never was human... Sothing dangerous that would get us if we tried to flee now openly... I’m beginning to truly fear the kind of monster she wants us to hide from.
We’re in grave danger and I can’t see or hear anything unusual. Only, she can. Like for the stone she found I guess, she can sense this kind of thing, of energy, from a great distance. I can feel and sense a few kinds of energy from a distance, like light, temperature, sound. As if it was another one, like electricity, she can sense a few others I cannot.
The sky suddenly turns black as night. The sun vanishes as if it never was. My heart jumps. Blu yells the thought of closing my eyes and I do so, before the nightmare falls upon us.
I hear a worse silence. So wind. Sothing far up in the sky moving around. I can still feel the sunlight on and through my eyelids.
Sothing is flying around, wide and dark enough to hide the sun in full day. It goes away. The odd sensations stop.
B - Run!
I don’t reply and jump on the way, without packing but the bare minimum. I begin to run on the open morning road feeling as if a war had begun next to , though the landscape is as still and quiet as ever.
I run at a good pace and she’s helping breathing more efficiently so I can keep the rhythm longer. I cannot speak anwhile, but she knows what I would have asked.
As I go along that road, she tells .
B - I’m sorry. That thing I saw is... A monster. Not one like the humans or beasts you faced before. No, a monster like... . Like the older thing I was, only far, far more powerful and dangerous. That monster, it reeked of murderous intents from miles away. It would have killed us both on the spot hadn’t we laid low as it passed by.
R - Was it... Looking for us?
B - No, I don’t think so... It felt that sothing alive was around, but I kept us hidden as much as I could from the mont I detected it. Hopefully it thought we were just a small animal and nothing more... It’s going south west... That city maybe.
R - Why?
B - It’s... Wrath. Cruelty. It wants to kill. It’s looking for intelligent beings to destroy and devour...
R - An ogre...
B - Please, just run as fast as you can. I don’t know what would happen to us if it were to find us...
She’s almost begging again, in panic. An ogre is on this land, and it may find us...
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I ran for around three kilotres. I’m feeling a weird mixture of exhaustion, hunger, sickness and strength. She’s acting on so parts of my body to give more endurance and strength, but it begins to feel wrong. I feel more and more nauseous.
R - Please... Stop what you’re doing. I feel sick.
B - It’s not . It’s the ogre leaving poison in the air on its way. I’m trying my best to protect you from it.
R - What is it trying to do?
B - I told you... If there are any humans left in the area where it is now, it will hunt them and slaughter them.
R - But why?
B - It’s not a being you can comprehend... It’s a true, real, monster. A being of your worst nightmares lost loose on the world and nothing will stop it...
R - How could such a thing... Be?
B - That thing hasn’t evolved from your nature. It’s sothing transford from mine. A being like in older tis. A power without conscience nor ntal boundaries. It’s not even truly a mistake from life... It’s the worst of what beings like could turn into... The absolute worst... Monster.
R - Until... When?
I run slower now, I breathe less and less easily.
B - Until... Maybe the end of tis. Or until a bigger fish manages to eat it soday... It hardly relates to biology at all. It will eventually die sooner or later, but it could be a very long ti unfortunately... I’m sorry but I can’t stop it. I can’t defeat such a monster. It could eat whole...
R - What can we do?
B - Alas, just run away...
I feel hollow. I knew nature wasn’t always fair, rciful; or systems I could have a righteous influence upon. But knowing a monster is loose and all we can do is flee makes feel awful.
Animals are neither good nor bad in what they need to do to survive and exist. That thing seems different. But in the end, neither was I judged for my cris...
I’m feeling awful.
I begin to tear up as I trot and lose my breath.
We will make it to safety...
B - I’m terribly sorry Rose...
I’m tearing up.
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