Walking through an empty town has become a thing for me as of late. Though with this one I could hear people just out of sight, so at least I knew that the girl had not banished everyone to some forgotten dimension. But it was still unsettling, and I want to say this became a trap, so I wasn't wrong in that it was a trap, it just took a bit for a trap to be put down, and now that it is I was totally in it. Which makes me technically correct, the best kind.
So I walked through the town, the address from the ghost tender in hand and awaited the god like powerful girl to show up and threaten to annihilate me. She didn't of course. She kept the streets clear, and no one in my way to say I had a sense of foreboding approaching that little cottage with the white picket fence would be an understatement on par with "And I have lived a little bit longer than most." I got to the front door and I didn't know what to do. Do you knock? Kick it in? Burn the house down? I was in unknown territory. So it was nice of her to open the door for me.
"Mr. Lorentino I presume." She was old, well relatively, she looked old. I expected a young girl, only someone who doesn't understand how death and dying would work could do something so foolish. But no she had grey hair and wrinkles, vastly overweight, so much so she walked with a cane.
"I don't know if you want me to come inside for this or should we do it outside." And by it I mean kill her. I didn't even know if it would work, but murder is my go to solution next to ignorance.
"And by it you mean?" Her voice cracked as old peoples voices generally do. It was kind of weird for me, then again she was completely caught off guard but what I planned on doing.
"Kill each other." I hate having to say it directly, just in case someone from actual authority is listening.
"Why would we need to do that? I just need for you to leave my town and me in peace."
"Look lady, I understand you don't want to lose someone, I've been there several times, but fighting against that is madness, you're trying to empty water from a river, you can't do it."
"You can dam the river!" She cried out to me and thunder rolled in the background, I got the sense things just got a lot worse.
"For a time sure, but eventually that dam will break, nothing lasts forever, certainly not you." I found myself clenching my jaw and I could feel my power rising up. I knew this was going to get nasty.
"Or you Lorentino, I see it in you you know, the evil that you do to keep yourself alive, what you are doing is worse than what I do, at least I let the people live as they did, you take their life, everything that they are, and add it to the miserable pile of shit that you are." Her voice had venom, but I could hear something else in it. Fear, she was afraid of me, and she should have been.
"Well then step outside lady, come see if you can succeed where others have not." And she did and the storm hit in full force. No that wasn't a metaphor.
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