CHAPTER 4 - BURDEN OF LIFE {PART 1}

 “…..”

“You are awake”.

“………..Erici”

“Sorry, you had to see that, but there was no other way”.

“…..” What could I say? Who was wrong or who wasn’t was not the question, taking a life is never an option or is it?

“I would have liked not to kill him, but he was someone who would kill or be killed”. What did she mean to say? There is no one in this world who would think like that.
  “There ain’t no way in hell that is a case is it, you murdurous blood whore”. Some things are unacceptable, even though they are practical. I would have rather lay dead, then seeing such misenthropy.

 “Yeah I suppose you’d say that considering you do not understand this situation”.

 “You don’t tell me anything and yet you have audacity to say that. Of course I will say you are at the wrong”.

 “…..You have to protect what you love”. Ridiculous, that was the word summarize what she said. Trying to sike me so that I would lose all the attention of the topic. What kind of stupid tangent she was trying to pull? She had knocked the life out of the person, the bone chilling face that the dead man had made had already engraved in my fragile heart.

“Okay then I reject you even before you confess. Now tell me everything”. Her eyes and brows rolled down for a split second before she planned her next statement.

“……Who’d you sacrifice in a situation like that?”. She asked. Going the philosophical route. An enemy that is controlled by bloodlust or a unarmed and unguarded friend. She didn’t have a choice. But I don’t them to die-

“He was a henchman, sent to kill you. The reason I have not tell you anything…..is because, the more threatful it becomes for us. It is like a grip of a python. The more one struggles, the more it strenghtens”. Her hands were not specifically tied, it was because, an informed me was more dangerous according to the enemy.

“….”

“There will be many a times that you’d have to forbade lives. Never ever chose the most optimistic answer, even if one day…. It would be me. I don’t comply to lose your humanity but keep the lives of you and the ones important to you at the highest priority of safety. Please do not risk them, you’d only regret it”. There was nothing wrong in her words. Even though I was trembling, her actions were not influenced by fury but well being and preservation.

“But still, couldn’t you have just captured him?”. That was still a viable alternative but it wasn’t considered by her and denied instead.

“Have you not noticed that you don’t have your clothes on?”. I was so involved in the debate that I didn’t even notice myself and the things around me. And sure I was naked in my bed. Although she had covered. Embarressment rose my face.

“Why did ya- ”

“They can put curses on their target, leaving marks on the body. Unfortunately they can be only detected by a special tool”. Curses, what was this. A stupid horror movie taking place in the pyramids of Kazu? But to be honest, after experiencing all this stupidity, I have to did consider it. I was casually looking across the room whilst thinking about when I noticed panties besides my blanket. They looked somewhat wet. Where was this turning? I gulped and asked.
 “Why are your panties here, and…wet?”.

“Your ‘thing’ was a little excited, so it was a little distracting during the scan. So I… Anyway, you get ready. There’s a new item being added to your schedule. We’d do it at night after dinner”. Saying that she left the room.
   She used me? Such an unethical act. I hadn’t even given her consent, I wouldn’t have if given the choice. For some reason, I cannot understand. Bodily desires. I consider them taboo. And a new item in the schedule late at night. I couldn’t help but panic at this unethical development.

Besides this tomfoolery, there were many lose ends I needed to tie. Erici reffering something ‘Marnagle’ and only visiting one of the two stores, her connection with Elizabeth and that suspicious letter and the dead man. Now if you don’t know about our predator. The extent of its capabilities, the danger it possesses, then it is even wrong to consider the hope to live through an attack.