The dust in the dry air was something common in the area. The night sky was adorned with white shining pearl, twinkling their light, decorating around the lonely moon. The cold night embracing the world, while the clock ticking away indicating people's life moving, passing the temporary night. The still trees on each side of the road, the cars queue up just beside the road, every creatures was having the rest to the fullest. The birds in their nest, the wild boar in the deep forest probably in their own place to rest. But to some, the night still early, the clicking click was just a thing they should ignore. Their life still needs to be fulfilled where people couldn't see their business because they were busy to have rest after long tiring day to notice these people. Somehow, the road was empty that night. The same road that those buff giant men line up, guarding the place. In the foggy night, a man, completed with dark attire, crossing the road as if the world is belong to him. No o
"On the first day?. Really?. You're late on your first day?."The lady in chrysanthemum's colour blouse behind the counter held a look of judgement as she place both her hands on her waist. She didn't even hide the distaste looks in her eyes as she eyeing kaylene up and down in a quick glance. "I am so sorry. Something I can't avoid happened on my way here. I promise it will not happen twice. I really regret my mistake."The lady went quiet, her judging eyes didn't move. Her chin lift up, her chest puffed out, her posture was anything but not in the friendly way. A posture she never get to master, even if her parents whipped her in the morning till the night and kept her hungry for a few day until the next session of practice 'elegance' again. Kaylene went anxious since the pause the lady took was dragging to much for her to bear. She knew something like this would happen, she mustered up every sanity and bravery left afte rthe incident yet it's
Joshua povThe rumbles of those walls was coming closer. No matter how fast I forced myself to run, the quicker I got was narrowly escape the falling building. That was third time this week. I already lost the ground to run, lost all the place to shelter. Fate never sided with me, that's for sure. My chest was heaving like a horse pounded track, I knew every second I was getting weaker, not a single grain I could find to full my hunger, not even a sip of clear water, nothing more than a polluted rain and some leaves from the last three weeks. It's hard to live in this place, where the water was nothing but a thick pus or some called them purulent. It's thick, hot, that the river or any water sources were looks like a boiling liquid with bubbles come out and popped like a balloon. This land also isn't good for farming, it's too dried, humid weather that could prick your skin, expose yourself too much under the sun and the heat, it's will give you at least a month t
Not a single chirp but pairs and pairs that they unsure how many of it. Half of a minute, that's what it took for the those in nest to come, silently just their described by their name "The sãlnes" a k.a "The silence". They are very sensitive to sound, very sensitive, as much as breathe could be caught. They would prefer them silence, and then only sounds they love, maybe the ripping flesh and bone. No one know how it's look, that's all myth but maybe some information at this moment.Chirp… chirp… chirp…The sound echoes, tempting, urging them to run. Barely make a sound, it's head poking from the grass, black shiny curved head, a hard and thick shell wrapped around it's skull, with a feature crawling like a crocodile, it's easily surpass the man's height himself, it's head as big as a human size before reaching its horned spine that run along reaching its spike tail. Slowly advanced toward the ripped jeans clothes man. A wet sound make him flinch as it's
"Lissa, do you-""No."With one word replied, Lissa walked off from kaylene who was watering the plants at the front, kaylene nodded understanding.….Another day, kaylene walked in with some food she made from home, she really excited, wishing to have a lunch with Lissa, and let her taste her home cooked meal, she may not used cooking delicious food, but it was fine rather than nothing at all. She walked towards the counter."Lissa, I made some meals, should we have a lunch together?."Lissa only give her a glance before shoved everything to the ground. Kaylene's smile faltered for a second."Clean it up."Lissa emotionlessly uttered as she walked out the shop. It was lunchtime, but now she have to tight her stomach and wait for dinner. She didn't have breakfast since she was too busy making those lunch meals and now it's gone. She nodded.…."Lissa, there's a small carnival at the capital, on
Kael povIn this whole month, I was trying so hard to keep the girl alive. For a 10 years or more, I have lost count the years I have living, own several town near the mountain she was kept in, waiting until she realises of the world she live in. I can't keep bargaining with the devil anymore, this is where our deal met it's end, which mean, I only have some more years to live in, until the devil gets what he want. I keep the lands in peace or at least, those who survived will keep surviving. No funny business that could destroy the lands even more allowed. However, we have noticed some bizzare actions those people do. I keep the lands out of reach from whatever creatures out there, from their previous generation and until the next and the next, however those people wake up in a peace land, far from the lurking danger just outside the lands' line, and they made stupid things to fulfill their twisted wish. For now, we were investigating on how many houses has do ma
It's three a.m. when the whisper gets louder, it's eating all the senses in her head. Four soft red walls intensely stared her back, Murals of a fantasy world lay lifelessly on the wall. The door which she was always wary of, leading to her wardrobe room much bigger than a normal house living room, became a place for numerous clothes, different types of them. Yet, all the fancy feed her fear like throwing a dead tree to the angry fire. The fluorescent sticker on the ceiling wasn't supposed to live and laugh but every night she saw them dancing and mocking her, crying at the corner seeming to be angry about something. The folding door to the bathroom seems to be the scariest of all, there's always something behind it. They scream, begging, and wailing for something she doesn't understand. She was nine after all.She was nine, and on the night of her birthday, she was supposed to get excited about the arrangements her parents has done, but nothing could make her heart flutter from the
1996Kaylene povThe snow icicles swirl in the air, so light, so free, and they end up anywhere they wish they want to lay down. Within a night, the forest was covered with a thick white blanket, making the air colder and vicious. The world has turned white, equality, they said, no matter how big your house, how far your house is, your house will be covered by them.White fairies.That is what was told when she was young, those white icicles were a fairy's shedding wings, they flipped up there in the sky, and flipped their wings so they get new ones, every day until they were satisfied with the new wings they get. If theirs was pink and transparent, or black night color, the shedding wings will always be white and cold.Being up here, on one deserted mountain was hard already, it's winter longer than the ground people usually stay. Up here wasn't always warm, no matter what season, they always get colder air. How's life down there? In those talking boxes they called television, they