Episode 5 |

I've been here for two days I recall from my daily cycle of sleep. Just waiting for my starvation and I'll be done. But surprisingly, starvation is the ultimate motivation to live. So for a few days ahead, I spend my time digging my way out and eating some thick furry ***.

Something witchery about the beast. Every time I slice some of her flesh it grows back in no time. I found this out when I want to continue my cut and the wound is gone. Fear isn't what I feel, my mind filled with the thought of infinite food. Its back legs moving from time to time indicating its life haven't left yet. I'm literally eating her alive. The meat doesn't taste good. even for raw meat standards. I cannot stop thinking it's rotten beef. The blood feels so slimy. The muscle tissue is light, but the taste bites back. Not the best meal there is.

I can barely feel my nail. I didn't use my blade to dig my way out out of respect for what blade really made for. But my hands, on the other hand, are multitool.

Takes me what I think for three days or something. Long enough to get me a decent amount of fur for clothing. When I thought I was still inside, it was dark. The sky just dark out lack of sun. The night cut off my dramatic effect of getting out of something.

There will be tomorrow for me.

Pass out of tiresome, lied down under the night sky. With no dream my sleep is too deep, I almost died. When I open up my eyes the sun blazing upon what below. Travel 149.6 million kilometers of empty space, get filtered by the atmosphere, Among the leaf's gap the light penetrates and just to fall down on my eyes. Wake up feeling satisfied.

Under the rubble of rock and dirt, a nose of two poking out. Fast and short she breathing in agony. I try to pat it with a gentle touch and she growls.

"so you manage your escape, I see?" a voice not from any direction,

voice just utter inside my head. The voice is calming, deep and so gorgeous. Cannot be defined, no woman or man could have those kinds of tone.

"wha- what?" I stutter "is it you?" I raise my hand from her nose.

"Indeed, it is I" she growls even more.

"you can read mind?" I say inside my head.

"no, I can not."

Sure.....

"yes."

"maybe I should leave" I proceed to take my leave

"wait, what's your name?"

And that moment I realized something huge, reality can be whatever I want. "my name is Conan the famous folk hero," I said in pure confident

"no, you can not"

"yes, it's my name now."

"shame on you."

"I was ***** for a week, I have no shame left to spare"

"very well."

"no no, I changed my mind. It is too huge moral burden that follows" Raise my shoulder "my name is Bara, so what is yours?"

"I don't have one, but humans always call me The Spinx...

"how bout Blue, yea that's a good name"

"Did you just gave me a name?"

"yes?"

"I will take the name, Blue it is"

"eeehhh....are you male or female, you sound so deep but not men like voice."

"is that what I sound like to you? I'm the only one of my kind, I do not need such thing

as....eh... I have no word for it...cub...I am destined to never die "

"must be lonely."

"I have no need for company."

"it's been a while since I talk with someone or something. I think I have gone insane."

"I was born with a duty to slay they whoever passes this woods. Striking fear of my prey.

Spreading fear among your kind to never step foot on this woods. They will go mental for what I did. And you, you are far from insane."

"what did you do to those who pass?"

"It is none of your business."

"Okay," I raise my shoulders, fair enough I guess.

"I will kill one by one of their member every night but never allowed them to leave to seek help. Even under the protection of their home and hope, I never far from my prey. Leave them to stay up every night, make them go insane. Killing them slowly." as she just explains it anyway

"Big talk from a nose."

"I yield my defeat, I was blinded with all my victory."

"..."

"no, I will not be your friend if you get me out of this. This gives me a Picture of death that I will never face. I say my gratitude."

"..."

"yes, it is too much work for your tiny hand."

I dig just enough to reveal her face, it is still a lot of dirt to dig. And look at that beautiful face. With three eyes and two noses, everything is extra.

Mmhh...hmmm...mmmm....bombastic

"your compliment is disgusted me"

"you miss me, love?"

Then her middle eyes open and she says "I thought I would never see your face again, human"

"aaaaaawwwwww"

"are you planning getting me out?"

"Nah... it's too much work."

"Indeed it is."

"unless" then I hack my sword on to her neck. "will be fast."

"I cannot be killed, human." Then his middle eye that lock into my face opened wide "are yo..."

Her word gets cut along with her throat. So much blood burst from a headless body. I could hear

the neck snoring sucking for air.

"wait, aren't you has psychic power? What happened with the neck?" I lift the head. Her eyes still looking at me without a sound.

"rrrgghhh." her heads tremble

"does it work?"

Still, on my hands, I wait. A spine burst from the head. along with that, her ribs grow. Then its limb. I drop the head but her limb supports herself. I saw meat start covering her bones like a suit armor. I never saw an organ from the body. Just an empty gut. the fur just grows without skin along on her muscle. She shakes her body then looks at me.

I raised my hand. Drop my sword. Gambling again.

She looked at my cloth. "oh! I'm sorry." Undress my self and fold them neatly. Then hand it to her.

"What is with this

insult? Human." she grinned showing her teeth. it was the most terrifying resemblance of faces. fear is not how you respond. that was the face you saw before your end. the feeling of relief.

"uhh...I apologize" knowing now that my life is at her mercy. I never win something. never with my stupidity.

"wore them in pride!"

"yes, mam."

And she, just leave.

Dang, don't have the chance to ask for her number. my mind shrugs, as my mind to divert how trembling my legs are.

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