rosesilver
Straight ahead I could see the bright light of the sun, it's warm fingers touching all that it could.
"A solution to all our problems!" He cried so loudly people were staring at us. "Isn't that what you want? A solution?" he whispered wrapping his arm around me. "I don' know, erm... maybe" I said uncertainly.
"Go forth, young one." my master boomed behind me. I meekly made my way forward cowering under the grimace of the Great One. "You have been chosen." he said monotonously.
The entrance was rather grand. It was a white marble archway veined with gold, silver and black. Black iron gates stretched out as far as the eye could see on either side. I barely had time for a gasp of awe before I was pushed inside.
I had to civilize them. That was the problem with being a mother. You had to civilize your children. You have to teach them to walk, talk, chew with their mouths closed. You know that kind of thing.
I shoved the shovel into the cold hard dirt ground and came up with some dirt. I looked behind me at my dead Father a trickle of blood coming from the corner of his mouth. "Just keep going." I told myself "Don't look back."
He would always have the upper hand I was sure of it. Him in that striking black cloak always keeping me guessing. He turned corners and I would never know which way to turn. He always held me in suspense and you know what? I liked it.
I was gone, wiped off the face of the earth in a single second. That explosion ended my life, my existence. It ended everything for me
It was a fresh start. The start of something new. I kept telling myself over and over. "Don't worry. You'll be safe." he said after he announced the news we would be moving and then he embraced.
It was a mass. A huge hulking mass with teeth that glimmered in the moonlight and red eyes staring you down like it new exactly what to do with you. We backed up until we hit the wall then it gave and almighty roar.
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