He looks up at the flawless moon, a bright and perfect circle hanging in the sky. The night is young but he feels old and angry. Earlier this morning, he met some people that needed his help, there are always people...Tonight, flying from window to window, his burden gets heavier and his shadow becomes denser. Arriving at a bedroom window, he quietly creeps inside to where the sleeper resides, to a king size bed where a girl not older than 16 sleeps and dreams. Her reflection in the mirror reveals the external - an old woman with deep locks between the eyes but the soul....the soul is just a girl. People like her need his help, he tells himself the same speech every time.
Inches away from touching her face, he begins to hum a melody, pleasant and hypnotic, creating sound waves that quickly filled the room, only to gather and rearrange again at the sleeper's temple. Like obedient soldiers, the rearranged waves then break down the barrier of the mind and enter deep into her subconscious on his command. Immediately, the sleeper goes into shock and her whole body trembles violently. Eyes still closed, she screams in tremendous agony as though someone is ripping her insides apart...
When it is finally done, the waves swim out of her as echoes. The humming ceases and the echoes grow louder with true names of her demons. Without hesitation, he slays them one by one as though he has been doing this for a long time. Those that will not die, he swallows.
The more he swallows, the angrier he gets until the room can no longer contain him. BOOM. Spontaneous combustion!
As the sun rises, she wakes up from a terrible nightmare where a strange shadow came through her window and exploded. More importantly, for the first time in a long while, she feels light and happy.
Life is worth living, she feels as if she owes it to someone for her to live well.
Life is worth living, she feels as if she owes it to someone for her to live well.
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