Breaking the daylight with darkness, I started to pick the twigs scattered at the forest grounds. I had the whole night to lurk in the mist of the woods, and to seek for warmth, seeking for attention…for I’m cold, as cold as the freezing abyss of my sinister world. I first joined the company of fireflies at the swamp of Avalos where it all happened; where every misery I had first crop up.
I sat at the big boulder killing the time, watching the fireflies as they lit little radiance to the swamp. I had been thinking for several nights about my encounter with a human. It disturbed my quiet existence all at once.
I met “her” at this swamp…at this very swamp. She’s so aloof and detached from those others of her kind. She too had been watching the fireflies that occupy the whole fen, just watching inaudibly… but with this, her beautiful composure contradicts her muffled inward shell.
It was odd for me as specie of a different kind that I did not become aware of her presence…her smell was unbelievably dissimilar from those other human’s smell. It’s not that distinctive and effortless to distinguish, that’s why I stalked and gazed at her from a distance.
The crave of my body for food defies my mind to harm the human…I waited for her to leave the place but even more she came to notice my presence. Anxious and fretful, she looked at me as I stood at the top of the boulder. With a wink of an eye, I moved swift towards her trying to warn her and fall back…but it was useless. I moved even closer with a sharp stare at her, closer and closer…
I suddenly bunged and freezed, her eyes were as brown as mine; it was as brown as the brownest color ever tainted. As I stopped, words from her mouth thaw out my arctic heart…
“Why do you stay in this kind of place? …are you also here for the fireflies?” with voice so gentle and warm.
As to my astonishment, I draw my body back and heed to the fireflies…
“Yeah, I’m here for the fireflies. I can see that you are also here for those little lights.”
“No, I’m here to escape myself from other people.” She replied.
(Silence… as strange sounds from the darkness streaks)
“You must not stay any longer…it’s too dangerous out here.” in my head sensing the others of my kind approaching.
With no options to take, I grabbed and clutched her whole body at my chest as I ran rapidly.
She then was quite embarrassed but out of her mind staring at me, she did not even discern that we’re moving very fast extraordinarily. We reached the nearest road just a matter of seconds, and I dropped her down.
“What are you?!” affronted as she asked.
“It doesn’t matter; you have to go now…” with my heart pounding hard as I felt it for the first time for all the centuries I had gone into this world. I did not even bother to ask her name, we just stared at each other committing to our memory the figure of our visage.
And by then, she left.
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