Pain.

I feel nothing but pain as I open my eyes and look around. I’m in a cell, naked and chained against the wall. The chains tight against my wrists, open wounds on my body not healing. I haven’t eaten more than bugs in over a week. I still dont’t know why I’m here. I woke up here and several people whipped me. They repeated this for the first few days and then just stopped. They let me hang here with the cold, rusted metal of the chains for company.

I listen for anybody near me. There hasn’t been for a while but I like to keep tabs on the situation. I look to where the chains connect to the wall and see the divot I have been digging out for a few days. The walls are made of a very weak brick that is very easy to pull apart. I’m almost done digging out the chains and I should be done today. I dig for a few hours and manage to free all the chains. I have to carry the chains with me since I can’t get them off of my wrists. I fit through the bars of my cell easily due to how starved I am. I walk through corridor after corridor, dragging the chains with me trying to find my way out. Eventually I can’t walk anymore and let the chains pull my to the ground. As I hit the ground my eyelids drooped down and I fell asleep.

“Subject 24398 has escaped after 7 days, 16 hours, 5 minutes, and 45 seconds.”

Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god! Did I just see that? I think just saw that!

Oct 30 wait no, Oct 31, 00:30

Dear Diary, I think I just saw a ghost! I just got to this hotel in Serbia. It’s so old and everything is cracked and breaking down and I’m up late cuz I couldn’t get to sleep and I see this silvery transparent naked lady down the hall and it was just like those stories that I hear everywhere. She looked to me startled and vanished. She was beautiful. Her luscious curves glowing ethereally. All traces of her gone by the time I run to her. But oh she was beautiful. I haven’t seen anybody who looked as wonderful as her. Im going to get to sleep and investigate more in the morning.

13:47

Dear Diary, I figured out who that lady was. She was one of the people living in the room a couple down from the one I have. We saw each other in the lobby. It was kinda awkward at first but it slowly got better and it was quite a fun conversation. She eventually offered to get lunch with her husband. It was a nice conversation and we promised to keep in touch but I wish it could’ve been more.

When I’m bored I op- -en my curtains to see out My window pane. Swish.

All I see is a Wall. The wall to anoth- -er boring house. Ugh.

I close my curtains To get away from the bore- -dom of outside. Swish.

Only to go back To being bored out of my Mind in my room. Ugh.

Let me out, Let me out!

I hate this, I really hate this!

She keeps me cooped up, She stops me from flying up.

I need freedom from this cage, I am suffocating in this cage.

Ah my eyes, my eyes, Wait, that’s sun in front of my eyes.

I’m free from this prison, I can fly up and out of this prison.

I have freedom, At last, freedom.

“NOOO! Don’t take him away, NOOOO!” I screamed, “Please, don’t do this, don’t, I’m begging you.”

“Mam, Please sit down. We are just enforcing the law, you must let us take your child.”

“NOOO!”

“Give her a sedative.”

I wake with a start. I shake my head; I try to get the images out of my head. That was 5 years ago. The government confiscated my 1 week old baby so that they can control the thoughts of every new citizen of America.

Now I try to help expecting parents to save their child from the Child Carers. The people who raise our children. I am part of a group of rebels who hate this new regime.

Officially this program is supposed to cut down crime rates and bullying. Unofficially it is to create a bunch of brain dead Christian citizens who would never revolt or vote against the current government.

Every one who remembers the time before hate this system because it means that the chances of you meeting your child are very slim. They even change the names of the children when they are taken. And their last name changes to Smith, the current presidents last name.

“Great Drakon, for the crimes you have committed against the northern dominance you shall suffer the ultimate price, death,” I read to the Great Drakon. He was a 15 foot scaly humanoid with huge dragon wings who can breath dragon fire up to 80 feet. “All attempts to resist will be met with utmost force.”

“And what can a puny human like you do to me, The Great Drakon?” He boomed.

“Ah, but I’m no ordinary human, I am the greatest Drakon hunter in world!” I called back while pulling out my biggest sword, readying myself for battle.

Knock Knock

The Great Drakon pulled out his wing unfurled it towards me. I started to swing my sword when it got close, but the sword couldn’t pierce his scales. He picked me up and dropped me in a hole.

“Come in,” the Great Drakon called.

“Has that little upstart Drakon hunter been dealt with?” An annoyed voice asked the Drakon. I knew that voice, in fact I had just recently heard it but I couldn’t place it.

“Of course my great king,” The Drakon boomed. The king is who gave me the mission to kill the Great Drakon. “That little pest wasn’t even a bother!”

“Great! This way of taking care of him is muck simpler than other options.” The king said. I was shocked. The most beloved king in all of the history of the northern dominance colluded with the most feared Drakon in all the land. I wondered if the Drakon was really that bad because he saved my life apparently.

“Let me know when you want to get me another tasty morsel.” The booming voice of the Drakon said.

“Alright, my business here is done.” The king called back and left.

The Drakon picked me up, brought me to another entrance, and said urgently, “Go to another dominance and lay low. You should be able to escape the king.” I started going but I turned back briefly to say thanks, then I booked it out of there.

I went to the western dominance and set up a small blacksmithing shop there. I also changed my name. I got a nice life and and a wonderful family. I thanked the Drakon everyday and I never went back to the northern dominance.

Dear diary,

I have to write this down somewhere, anywhere. I did something horrible; it’s been haunting my dreams, both at day and night. Just worrying I might get caught. To calm my mind I have decided to write it down here.

A few years ago I worked at a 5 star restaurant and I was promoted to head chef. I worked as the head chef for about 5 weeks when a man approached me after the restaurant closed and I was leaving. He made me an offer, an offer that would make me the richest chef in New York, however I would need to do something horrible. I would have to put a slow acting poison in the food of 100 people.

The poison would go in the meat and when checking the dish before it goes out I would put some of the poison. After 8 weeks the job is done and I got my money. After 2 years I retire. I had not heard of lots of people dying of the same cause at near the same time. After 3 all a hundred people were dead.

I don’t want to get caught and I don’t want my nerves to sell me out so I’m writing this here.

To whoever’s trying to kill me,

I have demonstrated time and again I can incapacitate any soldier, hit man, assassin you sent to kill me. So why try to kill me? Are you trying to solidify your position of being alive because you know I could kill you at any time? Well I wasn’t going to kill you because I retired but now I have no choice. I hope that this message gets through to you since it’s on the body of one of the assassins you sent to kill me.

From, Gerald, Retired Assassin for the USA, The Person You’re Trying To Kill.

As I sit there playing on my phone I hear a noise. I look towards my chair and see a letter on it. I take it out of its envelope and it says GO OUTSIDE. I go outside and see that there is another letter on the floor. That one says walk 8 steps north, 9 steps east, 10 steps south, 11 steps west. I walk 2 steps west and 2 steps south. I look around for anything when I look up. There are words on the roof saying Check Your Phone. I run back inside when I realize that I forgot my phone inside.​ On the back of the phone theres another letter saying GULIBLE.​

Meandering in a field of flowers, An escape from the towers.

Beyond the castle gate, To meet my fate.

With my umbrella for the feathers, Just to obliterate the tethers.

The tethers that keep me bound, That felt like a dozen fatal wounds.

I am finally free, I can finally see.

I can see the endless rivers, Meet many fishers.

I AM FREE.