September Chapter 65: The Monologues

"I know your Jasper, because one day he threw himself off a cliff, into a valley, near my house.

I was playing with insects down there, near the bottom, and I saw him fall out of the sky. He had a leg cast full of technology which included syringes to inject painkillers, medicine, and increased healing factors into him, all monitoring his nerve stimulations remotely to inject those chemicals where needed and for what amount.

He claimed, to me and me alone, that he was a time traveller, and he had come here in a time machine, from the future where he had unwittingly created a monster, and had unleashed it upon the world. He cried a lot about what he had done, and he regretted his actions so much that sometimes it felt as if he was drowning the entire room with them.

One day, when he thought that he was ready, Jasper left in his time machine, to somewhere back in the future. He wanted to be punished for his actions, and because nobody was going to give that to him