There's a biiig black hole somewhere in my brain right now...
I leaned against the fence and watched the slaves. I was hungry, thirsty and tired. The corpses arrived to the cementary by small wagons, driven by some kind of power of wich I've never heard of. The smell of ashes and burned flesh was terrible, it made me feel bad. I pulled the rope plenty of times, trying to get loose. It didn't work, so after a while I accepted my punishment.
So, this is how it's going to end... I thought many times. It repeated itself in my head. I will starve to death out here, and all the others will end up like slaves.
I tried to cry, just to let some of the burden off myself. It didn't work. All I could do was to watch people and think. But it was dangerous to think. All the time that I thought, I just became a odd little braindead zombie, simply phisolophing in those dangerous situations. I smiled to myself. I did it again and again. Smiled. Laughing, driving strange looks to myself from the slaves.
"You alright?" a voice said. I looked up. It was Turdus.
"Well, no. I think I'm even more crazy than what I was when I begun this. I hope I'll just die here..."
Turdus shaked his head and sat down beside me.
"That's not a very encouraging thought, you know." he said.
I payed some attention to what he held in his hands.
"Food!" I said and tried to get some of it. He pulled his hands away.
"Wait a bit.." he said and picked up a small red thing from the small pile of food. He gave it to me, I took it and looked at it. Slightly hesitating I ate it. For a while it felt like everything inside me wanted to get out. Turdus gave me another piece and stood up.
"I better go to the others."
"Fine with me."
"Stay alive."
"I'll do what I can..." I mumbled.
Something fell down before me. I woke up and looked at it. It was something wired in sheets from a bed. I stared at it for a while. A small stubborn voice in the back of my head shouted at me.
Open it! it shouted. Take a look!
I did what it said. I leaned out one of my hands and pulled away a bit of the sheets. Suddenly, the world freezed to ice. Nothing moved for a long while. I never realized how much Gaia meant to me, until she was here. Until she was...dead...
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