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Some of my colleagues 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBdtGSdqKNc
believe that humans cannot repress memories. That memories which are 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhZDsTalvkY
remembered with the help of someone are just implanted through 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIAW9XCy3iM
suggestion or hypnosis.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWRqcCSdRis
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Utter none sense I say! In a world where594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0pGWJeZqQn
ether exists, some find it hardest to believe that we humans can 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz3HiGwO8Ac
repress our memories. Those scientists and professors are too arrogant 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpEvoSQhkxA
to admit that we know nothing of the brain and what it can do. They want594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcr5k9htiEv
me to prove without certainty of a doubt that humans can repress 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0QD4QkOXUz
memories. Well to that I say, I want them to prove that it cannot. For I594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoOTqEuPkTG
am not arrogant enough to state I know everything about our brains 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9RMoarUMVi
capabilities.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTlpOkVBVll
'Notes from a lecture by Sig Frind on memories at the Royal Commonwealth College."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaY0Sh5Cp59
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David awakened. Not 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡd7uMqoM2wJ
wanting to get up out of fear of the wounds and disfigurations he 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyvtmmokxq9
suffered. He closed his eyes. Ignoring reality, ignoring the inevitable,594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDZaPrEEKBk
ignoring the pain....wait. David risked moving his hands in front of 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRgxHTS7qg1
his face and all the fingers were there. Not only that his hands were 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0TYgi5KzyX
undamaged.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡynV5hdN0dR
"Only your physical body594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNpPTrFRw9A
was damaged, your ether form is safe." A voice broke David's 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUxUchByoI2
concentration. "The only reason your eye is gone is because the blast of594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡExxFwr20x1
steam that burned your eye was full of ether."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx3vyxG5da1
A shadowy form appeared.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiVkHrEaMcz
Jester. Instead of his form constantly shifting and his voice taking 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEs0yvaAGz1
different intonations, Jester was only wearing a cloak over his body 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSLSYuIn4Sk
hiding any features. And his voice sounded...almost human.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnMAibFK3Ok
"Long time no see, David. Well for you, I've been watching you for a while." Jester laughed as if he said something funny.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNDUBHUGSzV
"Am I in the...ether 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsdJ17hX6fp
world again?" David asked looking around, seeing rocks flying around, 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6NuitjH9b
storms raging in the skies and shadows flickering in and out of life.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4tgrgSgXT5
Jester clapped." Indeed! You are learning, maybe you won't be completely useless." 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5XjMUJOcmn
David was tired, too 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUo3TmHdYVX
tired for Jester. Even so he still stood up. "Jester can we...can we 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL4depISOGR
just all this?" David waved his hands in the space between the two.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk95CjOZd5d
The shadowy hood cocked 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHCbvAYjupa
to a side. "Oh, that's just boring." David began a reply but Jester 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFbUE5jaq9n
interrupted him. "Very well, if it'll save me from your nagging. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5lNucQpTMK
Knowing what's waiting for you in the real world, you'd think you'd be 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWfrOIvjlEz
more grateful."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmPmPViSHtH
"I..."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJBBCwkpgm
"I went through all the trouble of getting you here. Hiding my presence from my brother and other mages. Honestly some people."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ232fCLwCgl
David groaned in 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJbht0SU6KQ
annoyance. "I've just been tortured for the better part of my day. Even 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2sO0Hm8hJ
if my body isn't feeling it, my mind is. So if you can get to your 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYbDl8wqYXV
falling point, that'd be fly."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkQKitKUqBR
Jester muttered something David couldn't hear. "Very well. What do you remember of your childhood?"594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPhY87lfIEa
David was startled by the question "What does that have to do with anything?"594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJ6LGGxXxm
"Well it's the main point of my visit, and you did say you wanted to stop playing games. What about your mother.?"594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLfYStaF0hf
A headache, feeling of resentment. "She's dead, or alive. I don't flying care."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ31ny1nzWn8
"Have you ever wondered why you don't remember your childhood?"594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz7FEARdXdl
"How do you even..." Then David had a realization. "It was you? Were you the one who took my memory?"594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOQObW7tFT
Jester giggled and put his hands up. "Guilty."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbfMiNAbemb
David shouted and 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlJzPXCK2lF
tackled the cloaked figure. His mind couldn't take it. After all that 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWzvdZ1xvj
torture and Jester's games, after all the pain and loneliness, after all594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAuGj7wUUfK
the deaths, David just wanted to blame someone. "Give back my life!" He594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgqSKspH5CN
punched inside Jesters hood, meeting only air. "Give back my freedom!" 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkRXQfvfi3G
Another punch. "Give back my happiness!" Tears joined the third punch, 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBbI5EWrM5b
which was David's last as Jester started cackling and dissolved into 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJBHxccYEV
mist.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsxcCMSCqkK
Jester's voice came from594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsnPvV6bqV9
behind. "Do you truly think, your misfortune sterns from me?" David 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡURG5Y3z2HA
could see surround shadows gathering around him. "What of everyone 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlDsj0ZAMrG
you've betrayed? People who would've called you their friend or lover. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpqlALWjEbf
Killed or abandoned for coin or survival. The shadows seemed to be 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6Ud3ZY6M15
creating a circle around Jester and David.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ71tWzqC50L
"You're lying to yourself. You..." 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2z1xcKuLO
"Shut up!" David 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6nv7HMp2ZD
struggled to get up. "Shut your falling mouth. You don't know me, I 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzAakwaqHca
don't care if you're one of the five, or a demon, or a falling figment 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ237oq40IpW
of my imagination only I know what or who I am!"594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0xjUpnBG4x
Jester gave another 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ364mNuZmth
laugh, a laugh that chilled David to the bone. Don't I? What makes you 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt5kZjRHhAH
so sure? Or are you just trying to convince yourself because you're 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNCve7CmPON
afraid of the truth?" 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVKysOGnWyQ
"I'm not afraid,I'm..." 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡh9wbRcAxdg
"You're what? A 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZr9JWucXUM
despicable human being? True. A murderer, liar and cheat? Also correct. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡADIqU7490b
But allow me to show you something, something that will make everything 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQsh9dqeEIs
you've done not matter." 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsayoQ8Jfcp
The shadows completely 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxuoLfXXpkV
surrounded the two of them now. "Allow me to show you the why you're 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2tpntpQlAW
afraid. Allow me to show you why you forgot your childhood. Allow me 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRME5lhiQrM
show you why this world needs to die." Jester put his hand over David's 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LGm8UoPU8
eye and shadows swallowed him.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZsCk98PGM4
Shadows parting, David 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtbWhNpzFJf
found himself in a room. Bottles and rubbish littering the floor. A 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrh2UHdwx7Z
woman in the middle of the floor, flailing and screaming from pain. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdca1HhlAwR
David could see her so clearly as if he wasn't in the fade anymore. No 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYJtUkdfwz7
more shadowy figures or echoes. Just an improvished room and David's 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdLyMaKIGLJ
mother594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ56hZZ1yCnr
"This is my memory." 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWYyaYojbjL
Jester said as he appeared besides David. "You claimed I don't know 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxYDew9YAfd
you, yet I might just be the person who knows you the most.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbDiwAL41Rj
David didn't reply to 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQBx7zXwjnN
that. He just looked at the woman as various feelings rose within him. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡamzX7iZi8I
Love, longing, loneliness, but most of all hate.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡblEkr52y9i
Unaware of what was 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsdrzxh0yVx
inside David's mind, Jester continued. "From the time that you were 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgp4chFxU0I
conceived, when your father raped your mother neither the first nor last594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHZlUF1UGJV
time. Your poor mother, she loved your father with all her heart, 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw6BoS9zTy5
despite his many, many faults. It is rather amusing how such a man can 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAds540kNM4
find true love and yet you cannot." David didn't rise to the bait. "She 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpc68k6BJ7e
tried getting rid of you, taking herbs and the like, it didn't work. She594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVV7ISyeFSQ
was even tempted to stab herself in the stomach but she was too scared 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6hNxFFlygm
she would die. A running theme with you Oxthornes, fear of death."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp28hZttYUk
Finally the screams of 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡELkiNd8TzZ
pain were replaced by the screams of a baby. Whispers from the babies 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIGInJUMYu3
mother reached David as if she was speaking to him. "Quiet, just stay 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs14yyubMtg
quiet. You ruined my life, he stopped loving me because of you. You. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVoxZnA3nJ0
You. You." The baby started crying louder, screeching the woman grabbed 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKJEVbt19nd
the baby's throat and squeezed.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUUgOijp54d
David could feel his 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3t8EqU3doz
throat contract, the air trapped in his lungs, extending them beyond 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZItbv9fAcX
their capacity. The shock made him go to his knee. "This is when you 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzol80fUFjb
died." David could hear Jesters voice in the back of his head. Just as 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ82o87E4Glm
the room began spinning his breath and vision returned and the crying 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqWeQmcnmCn
stopped.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Dx9duxPtt
"Oh, nonononono." The 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4HxfOLL27v
woman wailed. She put the baby gently on the floor and started pushing 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLZ0Vfs8Jyh
on its chest. Gently at first, and then with more distress. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnAX2CRRHVZ
"You who were supposed 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJiHI8gtRaH
to die, defied death." Thus the baby started crying again, weakly at 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHf38WuHx8W
first but then gained more vigor. "Yet by dying you became closer to 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnSZpirBsIC
the etherworld, susceptible to its inhabitants." 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhSjhwJvGM1
Coughing David stood up 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcYoXcvFLDZ
and looked at the mother and son figure...No he looked at him and his 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9E6jV9Xhtu
mother. David didn't want to believe this image, yet deep down he knew 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCj5dzRFiWD
it was the truth. "Did...were you the one who brought me back?"594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡId4Yd8szGs
"No, it was a small 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkAnq0S8SWX
miracle, for all of us." David was unsure if he should believe Jester 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtEaHtqF3Qa
but before he could question it anymore his vision changed again.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhP4hOAF7r4
He was staring at the 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡl4JqHmJ0uR
wom...his mummy. His mummy who loved him and took care of him, David was594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡob04JIpBRa
only good at one thing, getting in the way of his mummy's work. He 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaUZFgX5pZv
learned to be quiet after the first few times she slapped him, he 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4UqX0j9P5O
deserved it because mummy did her best to provide for him and David was 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvukmivWxij
just a useless existence, just like his mummy said.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ96Et69ft9n
But today David got to be usefull. He had the opportunity to make his mummy proud and happy.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfU5miEoRl
"There you go, David." She said brushing his hair with her hand. "You will make mummy proud, won't you?"594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3jh3LwbfLH
"I will!" Came a squeaky594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4RixUesp23
voice. "I will make you proud..est!" David said as he put a book down.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3lAyPRe6AM
David was unsure what the name or what the words inside said but it had594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT9FqT7UIk0
pictures of flying ships and heroes, something he wanted to be when he 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6IifLfxekJ
was an adult.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqRmdRE1Zi3
A knock came from a door594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuXxnDGNcPf
and David's mummy went to answer it. She spoke to someone in hushed 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwgM7i17skF
tones and then left the room without giving David a glance back. In her 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUIxVksww0t
stead a stranger came. David had never seen the man before and he was 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi1uZ1BTnFX
scared of strangers. Whenever a stranger came in with his mummy he was 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIn2NPL53C3
supposed to be quiet otherwise he wouldn't get food and get slapped for 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX2C1aeATg8
being a bad boy.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrALcbNb5sJ
That's why he didn't 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXQMceAWN7Y
speak, didn't move, didn't look at the stranger. "Speak up boy, what's 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgg6g2zJL3Q
your name?" The man said in a haughty voice.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtWz6b2pVph
"D..david" the answer 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWWcdWKYmvi
came in a whisper. The stranger grunted and came closer to David, moving594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXUXlqAGImd
empty bottles with his boots. "I said speak up."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzldYKdk77X
"David!" Came out the reply, which sounded too loud in David's ears.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfEh7OXmtwX
The man put his hands on594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAac52rufe6
Davids shoulders and smiled. "David? I'm David aswell, David Hozzelpoff594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiTXFITAkBa
to be exact. Do you recognize my name?"594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwe795gYxvJ
David meekly shook his 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhE6icWLTbj
head and was shoved to the floor. David hit the floor hard, losing his 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIa12Zm2Fee
breath. "I am the greatest mind of this century!" He crouched down 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvsTWv2oOVO
putting his face next to Davids. "Soon everyone will know my name, no 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS79HCpxtml
matter what my colleagues say or what rumors they spread." He said but 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAEdwUGn9by
the anger was slowly leaving his voice. "You must understand, I'm not 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡROV91mOQCw
usually like this, but...but sometime you just reach that point. I'm a 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkhpocPWoWT
good man I have a bright future and sometimes you just need obstacles, 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBziSDidxir
you are just that an obstacle that I must conquer." The man was 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHSERzKDzjw
bubbling. Caressing Davids face with his hand, the other one moving down594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5a7sYAPQmm
Davids body.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP6f3yeYayE
Please don't. Came adult David's voice594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5UcD5cbVnT
Young David was scared; 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC95FMdl2sP
he was used to beatings but not being touched in that way. He tried 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyLZbQh06Lt
wiggling away from the man pinned David down with his greater weight. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRyjmxIADZn
"Stop resisting." Derek hissed. "If everyone just didn't resist I 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIMyBuPuVZj
wouldn't be here I wouldn't need to do anything."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡul48H2Awb0
Help me. Save me. Came the child and adult voice intermixed.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmM3IitlAsw
"Mummy, mummy!" David 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNzRzyxfEIV
screamed, tears flowing, a feeling of wetness around his legs. Finally 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfOizJRbTzU
the man slammed his palm into Davids face. That stopped all resistance, 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNWbWqpthBN
after that day David liked to pretend that he lost consciousness, that 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb06SYQRxKk
everything that happened was a nightmare, but deep down he knew better, 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrRtm6zI4G
he knew that what he saw and felt was what had happened.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNExUK58yr3
David didn't even know 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡc1XJoEheG1
when the man finished, his mind was blank and when he came to he could 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ815RaadAk6
see his mummy looking at him. She scoffed. "Clean yourself up, you're a 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwNXsZmTZef
mess. David tried crying but no tears came.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwBZsfU4sZ2
Suddenly the room shifted again and David himself as an adult again. "That was the first time it happened. One of many." 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmmczcf9iQ0
David could barely hear 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzwhsmO01rg
jester, as all the memories came flowing back. It overwhelmed him and 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqOLY1zVHYN
the tears he couldn't find as a child freely flew out of him and he 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Sj1nSKwRg
screamed into the void. Out of desperation, out of misery, out of pure 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡreFviRu6Gc
anger. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5kV3RdC7NG
"There are more 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAdMNVd7XLb
memories. Let me know when you're ready." David looked at jester, whose 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7Y59MSeVk3
form changed again. His hood was down but half of his face was covered 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡthPst9rJ1F
in a dark like substance. The other looked...looked like a normal adult 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOWFqBzzVDA
male. David almost recognized it but couldn't quite place it.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡojA7KA6glc
"What else is there to 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzPPcrAspmM
remember?" David asked as he got up. Jester just smiled. "Just indulge 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRKTitpSnSv
me." Jester waved his hand again and David was standing in front of a 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwYisznLtxf
mirror. He could see himself, a young teen. With dead eyes and bruises 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdeLWcra2mf
all around his body. He looked at the glass shard in his hand. The blood594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmbEeccYAFF
that was spilling down his arm and hand was slowly dripping on the 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4pmApZTCVm
floor. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6s0nMf9YrQ
Even the pain didn't 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUIMwr9TaIM
offer him solace, it used to be that the pain he inflicted on himself 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZ5IGN0mgUW
offered an escape, but no more. One flick of the shard though...and 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6ZglnJZqfX
everything would be gone.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC2oYHNdqCT
~Just like that, give up594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ95bEJ1bOLF
end it all. No one will care. ~ That's right, no one cares. Mother is 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuZbT1k8VAM
probably with some man, or trying to get someone who was willing to buy 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0ZqPunwAy3
Davids body. Would she really mind if he died. He moved the shard closer594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡquBsIMLCnP
to his neck, his pulse slowly beating. ~But...what if it gets better? 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡw1KOsqhpRQ
What if death only brings more pain?~ David paused. "Can't be much worse594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiI5Ke2aQve
than this."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCPk05ATHl4
~STOP! ~ David dropped 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV8yQ9pyfNm
the shard as if burned. ~It will get better. Just survive. Have to 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVVlp5kJH43
survive.~ David dropped on his knees. That's right all he had to is 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJEmOVmswFj
survive. Survive and live.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6JR7nFcJRt
Everything changed again and David could see his reflection. Scarred, rugged and haunted. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMGWgd3RZLp
" that voice, it was yours." More of a statement rather than a question. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdHINdsMzo4
"Indeed." Jester 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSlCgosnWMk
replied. David could actually hear his voice properly, without an echo 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyDwFmf4gjo
or any other effects. He never noticed it before but it did sound a lot 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkwg9ECPZ4u
like his own did.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUuVnuQhm0x
"Why did you try 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtcOOovZGqH
convincing me to kill myself and then stop me? Why not just let me do 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJICxFDDS4I
it?" He said the last part in a whisper; his brain still trying to 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhAqJEBQEcf
process the influx of memories.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZIyoEKuJT7
"I've been there since you were a child I..I wanted to offer you an escape, but then I got scared I'd get lonely, if you died,"594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrKRIL6ecL7
"You expect me to believe that?"594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu0vVdZstsd
"Believe what you want."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf5tt0ZyPsb
"How many times? How many of my thoughts were mine?"594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyEqSWbVWKh
Jester chuckled. "All of594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2qgPT0RBoL
them really. To make sure you didn't notice anything was out of the 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNLfx4z7k2Q
ordinary I had to make it look like they were your thoughts."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpUywPwdT8W
"That just 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWkpbkIRKCT
means..."David held his head and groaned in pain. "I'm so confused, in 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqYbXRQnXTb
my memories it doesn't like you're trying to be subtle. What changed?594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7lJyHavuvh
"It's related to the last memory, I'll show you if you're ready."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzN8DAxDeDl
David nodded. "Do it."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUwxrKVq7bM
Everything shifted. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSUBjwxBOL2
David was cleaning his 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgLN5qhPFoC
face, in his middle teens and miserable. He wasn't sure when this 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ54ls3RRDSH
grounded life started but it's been a long time now. He learned tricks 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOFSourZRMa
on how to make it easier for himself. By pretending the strangers were 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxvZsSrMZOh
important he would save himself a lot of abuse, by guessing how they 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiD32ryrIsz
wanted him to act and acting that way they, sometimes, took pity. Of 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2rgRqEe0wP
course not everyone cared; some still had fun abusing a young boy.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYzFK6UKDoO
His last one was just 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡr0qc38Ldxl
that an abuser. David touched his broken-again nose and the eye that was594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLGdQf6qtuf
barely opening. The bitch would be angry again, his face was supposed 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoQhFSVNDyr
to be without bruises. Her clients liked him more when he looked pure. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vIQ4TFUOb
Undamaged goods she loved to say.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnb34hRbrzN
Right on cue, David 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1Kbed4RhJQ
could hear the bathroom door opening and she came in. Sneering she 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZxqrYd5rfY
slapped David causing him to fall on the floor. "Stupid, idiot boy!" She594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡez1reYYE2i
slurred. What a surprise the bitch was either drunk or drugged. "One 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhnXenLcn8P
thing, don't let them hit your face. And look at you! Useless!" She 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLQ481HdJCT
shrieked and kicked David clumsily.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwlGQkAMVf0
Why was this his life? 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7kjTsGWWdi
Should he have taken his life, can he still do it? He looked at her and 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSTRqk0VjDL
she seems to have taken offense at that. She scratched at his face and 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡurAdIM1iT8
came down on him. "How dare you look at me with those eyes! They're his 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4vRLpCMW3C
eyes! Someone like you doesn't deserve them!" She continued in a similar594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡi7XFaye82x
vein trying to get his eyes. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWtRUIeWTio
~Enough David.~ A voice 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWNQavQ1GV2
resounded in his head. David knew that voice, it was his only friend. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZD8FMetPTK
~Fight back.~ David faught against the urge and voice, after all it was 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDS1WHAuPSC
still his mother. ~FIGHT BACK~ Finally David extended his arm with force594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTTI6rTThUL
and met resistance.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡksS7GRrfov
The scratching and 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP5xXipzBbs
shrieking stopped, he could see his mother on the floor, groaning, 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW1f1sddKJ0
slowly getting up. Thinking quickly David grabbed a glass bottle and hit594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwkFtxuknCQ
the bitch with it. Again and again until all that was left was a glass 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAjib0vT5wt
shard and then he kept stabbing and screaming until his throat and hand 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ44rPftL12H
was raw. Once he couldn't hold the shard he stopped and laughed.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡb31b1Q9Zwq
Oh god what did he do? 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcvMHTb8uvx
This was his mummy, the one who always protected him, the one who would 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ8qI9UtGet
never abandon him a and he..he murdered her. But...no, no, no. She hated594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIxjYyFsQvU
him did she? Yeah she was a bitch..NO..she was his mother. Was there a 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpyYzRPfxWg
difference? David started crying and throwing up. He killed her, he 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCTXziB3fdF
killed her, he killed her. His head felt as it was going to burst, cries594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSLCIFMDRgw
replaced the laughter as he rolled on the floor covering himself in 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxXq75m1vAJ
blood.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqSuDkp0S2M
~that's enough David. Forget, forget everything.~ 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWq4lTCeh5n
There was a pause and everything quieted down.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ09aj80RPM3
A boy named David just 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFvRBrgwtfj
woke up. Surrounded by empty bottles and rubbish. David shrugged and 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkUXI7poro5
winced. He was in pain did he fall? That would explain the blood all 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9qhd35CuQF
over him. Yes he fell and hurt himself. But what about the body...wait 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAevjne40Ud
what body? David looked around and couldn't see anyone else in the room594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZjNf3pjx6Y
besides him. Why did his head hurt? Why couldn't he remember what he 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡArMiWGe1SY
was...oh that's right. He was going to become a hero and fly on a ship. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8BCVyauCGK
Yes, that's what he was about to do when he became all confused, how 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjHUwImO8V1
silly of him.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ88dXQzAiVn
Remembering his 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNyqc9G2IqP
objective, David opened the door and left his old life behind. To enter 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0lDafFiiOu
his living room and find his dad, mum and brother sitting at a round 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfZyTmdUX8q
table preparing a meal. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPdvd1H0Hhr
"There you are David!" 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡV6IkJTJaD2
His dad said. "We've been waiting forever, come on I can't wait to start594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsHlY4JFftL
eating!" He started hitting his utensils on the table. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaxD0yaVVLD
This isn't the truth.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUSww8iZfhZ
David obligingly sat 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvxdW1YQquF
down. "Oh stop, honey. You're going to give children bad manners." His 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡanpUY4xU1B
mum chided playfully. As she put the food on the table and ruffled his 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9dzmCBDxB5
brothers hair. Sitting down next to David and giving him a warm smile.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdH3hGtP5Nq
A dream, nothing else.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOBs1eqAJ9S
They all thanked the 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgkkUJ1EHUP
gods for what they had and started eating. Yes thankful for this happy, 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGQsu8rwMUb
oblivious life. Thankful for good and supportive parents. Thankful for 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaLYrOdn1XJ
this lie.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnYpKQ4r7mU
A lie that has to end.594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPKnSzd1T9q
David was standing at 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGAMxFWX8Q6
the table.. He was sure this wasn't part of any memories, but he was 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJsFPZKkDJc
sure that the boy was him, a happier more healthy him, and the woman was594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ86yoZqtyPO
his real mother or atleast someone who looked like her. While the 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ21XqNqQEDx
brother and man? Something that might've happened if he was luckier? 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjegEq2JFMK
Either way David hated 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡetu06f1Zpw
this. Why, why, why, why didn't he get this happy blissful life. Why 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBksfH3MJ3s
didn't he get a father who would teach him to become a proper man, why 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhNHmSpmGw3
didn't he get a mother who consoled him when he hurt? Why was he all 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgrSHdWRuZk
alone, without a brother or any other sibling. Why does THIS pale 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCKCjYpyV9X
imitation of his deserves this good life, he'll never appreciate. Why 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaoRwdTWdM6
does anyone. When there's so many suffering why do only few deserve to 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxpm7XtyBcV
life this happy blissful life?594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrbMbBHBZ9C
The answer was so simple594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaSiWjRzoBa
that David almost laughed. It didn't come in a whisper by someone else,594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPoNJweytsQ
it was his own and he fully knew it. They didn't, they didn't deserve 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwkKaOcDAit
this life, no one did. Thus there was only one solution to end it all, 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡk2wZtTpOLh
end all misery either present or one that will come in the future. 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXNhAT9yFcb
David decided to start 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMBtUgPaa6Z
with this lie, he took the knife and plunged it into his young self. "No594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡz2Ijv1fX1A
more lies." He took it out and stabbed his father. "No more regrets." 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY7xgZ1oQCD
Next his brother. "No more tears." And finally he stabbed his own 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUyhIzLeGjZ
mother. "No more mercy."594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡY3EBe5xvc4
With the last stab 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMmQaxgBqSh
everything fell apart piece by piece and David found himself staring at 594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU7clo2vWwX
his own shadowy reflection. The only thing surrounding them was the vast594Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8iJfr4YbJl
emptiness.
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