”Feeling well? That was after all quite a fall you took there...” The soft voice called out to me, my head resting in her lap. “It's quite ironic though, just a couple years ago you couldn't stop desperately chasing after me, and now you seem to get down here to keep my company every few months or so.” I lift myself of her lap, and tell her that it wasn't on purpose, if I had a choice, I'd leave this godforsaken place and never return. “And if you had a choice you'd never have created it in the first place, so, why are you here this time?” So I told her, about why I had once again fallen down from the surface in this dungeon, and why I cannot get up again.
“Real smooth. You sure do have a way with people.” Her blatant sarcasm annoyed me, but I only had myself to blame, both for her use of sarcasm and for deserving it. “So, what are you gonna do? Try and climb up again? Cry a little on my shoulder? Or maybe just have a seat down here and talk a little about fun old memories?” I told her that I neither needed to cry or talk about silly fake memories. “Fake? Of course they are, that's why they're so fun. Or what, did you grow tired of me sometime in the last two years?” Grew tired of her? How could I, the problem was just that talking about the same old memories time and time again wouldn't do anyone any good.
“I know that they're old, but they're all that I have, you might be able to leave this place, but I can't, not after you practically banished me here” Banished? I quickly told her that her imprisonment here wasn't my fault, and that I had nothing to do with it. “Maybe the imprisonment wasn't, but you could surely let me out, if you didn't think I was far too precious to get infected by the outside world, let me live a little again dammit!” Her words hurt, they truly did, but there was nothing I could do, I was just too afraid that the outside world would change her or hurt her somehow.
“Enough about me now, you're the one that can escape, so you're the one we're gonna get out of here.” I told her that I didn't need her to tell me that, and I could get myself out of here if I so wanted. “Then why are you still here?” The truth was probably that I was scared, scared of those that walk the ground, scared that they'd shove me down here again. “Scared? You disgust me, you put yourself down here on your own, don't try to shift the blame on someone else. So what if their behavior wasn't perfect, they're at least still up there aren't they?” I told her that she was probably right, but if I didn't have the motivation, then how could I possibly succeed?
“No no, you're not gonna do this without motivation, we're just gonna have to find you some. Don't you remember all those up there? Aren't they important to you?” Of course they were, how could they not be? “More important than me?” Saying it was hard, but I had to tell her. Yes, yes they are. “Then stop moping around here with me and start climbing up again!” I would, if I knew how, it's a long climb up after all.
“Don't think it's far, as long as you keep going up all will be fine, just take it a few steps at a time, maybe you'll find someone on the way who can assist you further!” Yeah, maybe I could do that... Maybe I could have the courage to try again... I walked over towards the exit and the path up again.
“So... I guess that's it... You're leaving again.” I turned her around and looked at her, catching a glimpse of her bright green eyes. “Just... Never forget me.” How could I? How could I forget a person this important to me? A person that had helped me through so much? A person that... Never would be able to be alive again... I reassured her that I'd never forget her and started walking out, hearing her words softly behind me as I left. “Thank you... For creating me.”
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