*Soleil*
I stare out into the air, it is like everything disappears around me and I am in a long dark tunnel, where words and sentences fly through my mind like an express train.
“I love you”. Luca had said. “There is always a choice”.
“You killed Davina”. I had screamed at him.
He had denied it. But he is one of them. The hamram. He is one of the monsters I had been called to destroy to break the curse. How could this happen ?
“Not everything is black and white”. My kin’s words pull me back from the dark tunnel. No he couldn’t have..
“Tjalfe !”
*Casper*I walk up the grand stairs to the big mansion. It has been such an entertaining night and I have come back to get some sleep. When I walk past the office to the left of the entrance the secretary comes out.“You are back late. You have not made trouble again have you ?” She glares at me.“Why ? Did you want to tack along darling ?” I put on my most dazzling smile.She just glares at me without answering.“Calm down Natascha. No, I haven’t caused any trouble, okay ?” I laugh as I walk to the grand polished wood staircase that leads upstairs to the private rooms. When I get
*Soleil*“If you sit down over there, someone will come for you in a minute”. The officer behind the glass window points to a row of chairs.I nod and go to sit down. The colourful paintings made by local artists can not stop the room from closing in around me. The silence is unbearable. I don’t want to be alone with my thoughts right now, so I grab the nearest Magazine and flip through it. Like a satellite in orbit my thoughts continue sending out the same message: The dark one has killed Davina.I try convincing myself that the murder is a coincidence. I pray that Siri is right, that it is just some ordinary lunatic, but my gut feeling k
*Soleil*Getting home takes forever, even if the police station is right on the other side of the neighbourhood where I live. I know every hedge, every patch of scrub that has fought its way through the asphalt, but now everything looks strange and new. I don't want to be in this World where there is no Davina, where I am once again alone.When I get home I will disappear back into my only bubble, but tonight I will be able to do something to break this dread weighing me down. When I find the dark one everything will be better. Won’t it ?It doesn’t help coming home. The second I feel my mothers arms around me, the tears begin to fall. I curse my own weakness, but the sorrow is mercilessly and insist on confronting me with reality.
*Casper* I have been walking around with that card for a couple of days, taking it out, turning it my hand, wondering if I should throw it out. Only thing on it is a phone number and a name... Pusscat. At first I felt nauseated by the gaze Pusscat had sent me. Well not so much the gaze itself, but what it had made me feel when our eyes met. The fireflies in my stomach have gone crazy every time I thought about what those eyes had promised me. Up until now it had just been my own secret perversion, watching men have sex with each other online, but now I have started fantasising about doing it. Fuck it’s so nasty. It’s one thing sitting at home watching men go at it while I play with myself, but like trying it ? No no, just because I have tons of
*Soleil*It is dark when I cross the main road. Gudrun's small Fiat is already waiting for me when I reach the gas station. It is Marta sitting behind the wheel with Siri next to her. I put my things in the trunk and join Gudrun in the back seat.“How are you holding up ?” Gudruns’ worried eyes look into mine.“I manage. If we can just find the son of a bitch who did this, I can manage”. I manage to push out.“I know”. She gently pads my hand. “We will find whoever did it and make them pay, I promise”.“Our source has told us that your friend hasn't been moved fo
*Luca* I wake up with a twitch. I had been dreaming about Soleil. Her eyes had been burning with anger and had looked at me with disgust. “Where are we ?” I sit up, blinking confused. “Poland”. Martin says with a huge grin. “Sure”. Even if I have no idea about what time it is, I am pretty sure we haven’t gone that far. It looks like early afternoon outside. “Seriously, where are we ?” “No questions. You don’t need to know that, because they don’t need to know that”. “Can the old one really read my mind ?” I
*Luca* “That must be some kind of new record, huh Darrell ?” Martin puts down four cold beers on the wonky camping table where we all sit, sweat running down our faces. We have been struggling with the tents on the auto campers. Being stronger and faster doesn't really help here. As we are cooling down in silence, Andreas shows up. He puts his iPad on the table and sits down. I notice how he sits stiffly and stares at the screen, but I ignore it, it has to be my parents' problem, not mine. “So.. I was online when we drove here”. Andreas croaks without looking up. “Okay”. Dad grumbles. “You have not told any of Your friends where we have gone, have you ?”
*Luca*Mom is waiting for us when we return. She looks nervous and has a tight look to her face, her whole body actually. She looks at me, the question clear in her eyes and I nod, making the shoulders visible fall down as she lets go of the tension.“Oh my baby boy”. She whispers and Andreas throws himself into her arms, sobbing like the kid he still is if truth be told.“Mom, where is Victor ? It is a bit too early for him to see this”. I nod towards the autocamper.“Martin has taken him and the twins up to the playground. Your father is waiting in the tent. I think it might be time for a talk”. She hugs Andreas again, and reaches out to gently rub my arm.With an arm around each of us, she leads us into the tent. If everything hadn’t been this fucked up I