It is the 20th day, and you can’t
help but wonder. What happened to the 19th? While you try to figure that out, the dumb
look on your face, tells the young girl with the glowing eyes, everything that she
needs to know.
“I don’t believe that you belong here,” the
young girl stated.
She smiled at your puzzled look.
“I’m not a fool,” she said with mild
amusement. Then she held up her ghostly-white
skinned arm, and waved her other hand up and down it, as if to say, ‘see’. Then she taps a finger to her left temple, right
beside her glowing eye.
“There is too much life in you, to be any
average traveler of this road,” she smirked.
Her look then turned serious. “You
are not like me or the other Meek. That’s
what they call us here, if you were by chance curious. The ‘One’ and his hunter, the wolf, make sport
of us.” She glanced back to the
wolf. “You are the first he has hunted,
and has not got,” she said in a distant voice, with a hint of being mildly
impressed.
After a silent moment her smirk
returned. “By the way… my name is Eleanor
Wright, if you were also wondering that.
Most call me Ellie.” Then Ellie,
takes a few appraising steps toward you.
“What is your name?” she asked.
Your mouth opened and then closed, for the
question puzzled you. It seemed that way
with all questions here. The memories
were still kept just out of your reach, and it was becoming more frustrating,
knowing that they had to be there.
“You don’t know… do you?” Ellie cautiously
asked.
You shake your head.
“I expected as much, from someone who does
not belong,” She stated. “But you do know
your purpose, or at least a bit of it?”
This time you nod with a slight shrug, and
point down the dark road.
“That is not an easy path,” Ellie grimaced. “Take it from someone who has been here a
while.”
She sees the determination on you face and
sighed.
“Oh well… Let it not be said, that I didn’t
try to warn you,” she conceded. “May I
at least walk with you a while…?”
You want to say ‘no’, but you find yourself waving
her forward, as you turn and start to walk.
She cheerfully jots forward beside you.
Ellie looks up at you and smiles, and you grudgingly force one in
return.
Really, what’s one more annoyance? You have no memory, you’re suddenly very
hungry, your hands have now started itching for some reason, and you have a
somewhat perky individual to keep you company.
To top it off, you still have no idea what
happened to the 19th.
There are only 11 more days until Halloween.
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and the journey continues, only a little wiser, but not alone anymore
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