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Some of my colleagues 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtGTjMb80KP
believe that humans cannot repress memories. That memories which are 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlI2EtJyH5z
remembered with the help of someone are just implanted through 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbFj3K5qEqb
suggestion or hypnosis.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN4sUfhv808
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Utter none sense I say! In a world where940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfpgFf6NVuD
ether exists, some find it hardest to believe that we humans can 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnoopX23YsO
repress our memories. Those scientists and professors are too arrogant 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3NPBFwJbMt
to admit that we know nothing of the brain and what it can do. They want940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGDPjdl8DWL
me to prove without certainty of a doubt that humans can repress 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQeVwFF7scY
memories. Well to that I say, I want them to prove that it cannot. For I940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡhIDwEJnAH1
am not arrogant enough to state I know everything about our brains 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Dfs7VSxaU
capabilities.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBzYsxAklXt
'Notes from a lecture by Sig Frind on memories at the Royal Commonwealth College."940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlHFWQDchve
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David awakened. Not 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmffU5qA6bA
wanting to get up out of fear of the wounds and disfigurations he 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDDV1Hdsf7A
suffered. He closed his eyes. Ignoring reality, ignoring the inevitable,940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCNOXaRzXud
ignoring the pain....wait. David risked moving his hands in front of 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ70qRdpJ7KA
his face and all the fingers were there. Not only that his hands were 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1ww6BmtJih
undamaged.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxAdS18UdDI
"Only your physical body940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ594nr0nAA2
was damaged, your ether form is safe." A voice broke David's 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyX4iDp8mXS
concentration. "The only reason your eye is gone is because the blast of940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ02T4Vp8nbx
steam that burned your eye was full of ether."940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEOT7aDXL01
A shadowy form appeared.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡamSMq4tnH0
Jester. Instead of his form constantly shifting and his voice taking 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzNiz3f5k3q
different intonations, Jester was only wearing a cloak over his body 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuYPGHZOj3A
hiding any features. And his voice sounded...almost human.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMG1zrQdARZ
"Long time no see, David. Well for you, I've been watching you for a while." Jester laughed as if he said something funny.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtpuQjweqje
"Am I in the...ether 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7kbhLbDeDt
world again?" David asked looking around, seeing rocks flying around, 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYuIC6kRcZ3
storms raging in the skies and shadows flickering in and out of life.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1bN6ITKkha
Jester clapped." Indeed! You are learning, maybe you won't be completely useless." 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD8G7zcq6qL
David was tired, too 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzdEG4EPMIa
tired for Jester. Even so he still stood up. "Jester can we...can we 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ40Nyba9Zcl
just all this?" David waved his hands in the space between the two.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6PG0q9Y44
The shadowy hood cocked 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3yRt8vQCh7
to a side. "Oh, that's just boring." David began a reply but Jester 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOTbA7tg8Fn
interrupted him. "Very well, if it'll save me from your nagging. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuj00slP6gj
Knowing what's waiting for you in the real world, you'd think you'd be 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT0oKAaiCXr
more grateful."940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHY6ZRLpLGI
"I..."940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSEtQpoY3Ur
"I went through all the trouble of getting you here. Hiding my presence from my brother and other mages. Honestly some people."940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOCr6L6KxwS
David groaned in 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtxskFOgHjb
annoyance. "I've just been tortured for the better part of my day. Even 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4iJvvPILNZ
if my body isn't feeling it, my mind is. So if you can get to your 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnL81rQt50t
falling point, that'd be fly."940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt421gNan8t
Jester muttered something David couldn't hear. "Very well. What do you remember of your childhood?"940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡU8vH5jtwjK
David was startled by the question "What does that have to do with anything?"940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOshw6FmPE0
"Well it's the main point of my visit, and you did say you wanted to stop playing games. What about your mother.?"940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDDgJHc0qZq
A headache, feeling of resentment. "She's dead, or alive. I don't flying care."940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡH7Js7pYT7n
"Have you ever wondered why you don't remember your childhood?"940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡye5KayiVUP
"How do you even..." Then David had a realization. "It was you? Were you the one who took my memory?"940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5peWrVUB80
Jester giggled and put his hands up. "Guilty."940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWXUNpucT7Z
David shouted and 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXLEnz8Bs0V
tackled the cloaked figure. His mind couldn't take it. After all that 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwngIXsaORy
torture and Jester's games, after all the pain and loneliness, after all940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbkithFRP9E
the deaths, David just wanted to blame someone. "Give back my life!" He940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡI9Ya5QfR6x
punched inside Jesters hood, meeting only air. "Give back my freedom!" 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHcuKQ9k4Di
Another punch. "Give back my happiness!" Tears joined the third punch, 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQhBqfXDjgw
which was David's last as Jester started cackling and dissolved into 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpB5SnWlYpQ
mist.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaK5x9vM2ef
Jester's voice came from940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW7M6jENeg9
behind. "Do you truly think, your misfortune sterns from me?" David 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwh5je2jFMO
could see surround shadows gathering around him. "What of everyone 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeZOKyiICfH
you've betrayed? People who would've called you their friend or lover. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEI4MGk5W8j
Killed or abandoned for coin or survival. The shadows seemed to be 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjBFYZOWpjZ
creating a circle around Jester and David.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ06S3BzjciE
"You're lying to yourself. You..." 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡcVJCrVrvbu
"Shut up!" David 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡONZyHmGbAL
struggled to get up. "Shut your falling mouth. You don't know me, I 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZJnc5yMPrE
don't care if you're one of the five, or a demon, or a falling figment 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ08X88HeE0n
of my imagination only I know what or who I am!"940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuMPA0iwnkL
Jester gave another 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡe6GHNJvh2y
laugh, a laugh that chilled David to the bone. Don't I? What makes you 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡO3P7N2FLJf
so sure? Or are you just trying to convince yourself because you're 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡu7LKwmMhDT
afraid of the truth?" 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIF36XwELZW
"I'm not afraid,I'm..." 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFLAcT96HLf
"You're what? A 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCd0CrFi1cc
despicable human being? True. A murderer, liar and cheat? Also correct. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgoFyNNsqL6
But allow me to show you something, something that will make everything 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3TRnBVEVKX
you've done not matter." 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡixoYwVBW4c
The shadows completely 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡryKU0cCcO9
surrounded the two of them now. "Allow me to show you the why you're 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5TO5aiVNCN
afraid. Allow me to show you why you forgot your childhood. Allow me 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1kuCuR5Nyy
show you why this world needs to die." Jester put his hand over David's 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDS9OE5xxMT
eye and shadows swallowed him.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡlnhNGErT8k
Shadows parting, David 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡt58BHGkNYJ
found himself in a room. Bottles and rubbish littering the floor. A 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡICDEXwlGSs
woman in the middle of the floor, flailing and screaming from pain. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡx6rrmmcxUD
David could see her so clearly as if he wasn't in the fade anymore. No 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1GtYb88KNk
more shadowy figures or echoes. Just an improvished room and David's 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYoem4bBGRH
mother940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAiwMGuPvN4
"This is my memory." 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjg3pI40Pbx
Jester said as he appeared besides David. "You claimed I don't know 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmUXdZgV0pp
you, yet I might just be the person who knows you the most.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwOK0BtfAmf
David didn't reply to 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5SInqGKvWT
that. He just looked at the woman as various feelings rose within him. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡViLnGyMXse
Love, longing, loneliness, but most of all hate.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOE4wZhWlkC
Unaware of what was 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAxHIIeRI4z
inside David's mind, Jester continued. "From the time that you were 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6tzCne3SFJ
conceived, when your father raped your mother neither the first nor last940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZEwNQDq7zH
time. Your poor mother, she loved your father with all her heart, 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCQkL9yRsMp
despite his many, many faults. It is rather amusing how such a man can 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLTod2V2Tu
find true love and yet you cannot." David didn't rise to the bait. "She 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXT3TSMKRNb
tried getting rid of you, taking herbs and the like, it didn't work. She940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbyXyCEObbq
was even tempted to stab herself in the stomach but she was too scared 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡD2XIANDeyp
she would die. A running theme with you Oxthornes, fear of death."940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡzv7zEBxFxf
Finally the screams of 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGFW9zuKgiM
pain were replaced by the screams of a baby. Whispers from the babies 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpis83i24Sy
mother reached David as if she was speaking to him. "Quiet, just stay 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTyBATum0Ro
quiet. You ruined my life, he stopped loving me because of you. You. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXBedEDnVqf
You. You." The baby started crying louder, screeching the woman grabbed 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWjRS8AygJ2
the baby's throat and squeezed.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmDEFJ8ijfV
David could feel his 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMJvyB54nCZ
throat contract, the air trapped in his lungs, extending them beyond 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrLvruI1BFs
their capacity. The shock made him go to his knee. "This is when you 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKeCKwnDZIq
died." David could hear Jesters voice in the back of his head. Just as 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOvdirGffG6
the room began spinning his breath and vision returned and the crying 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWJwr3yjC3Y
stopped.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡCGjXcMe5hI
"Oh, nonononono." The 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡL6lninVMXK
woman wailed. She put the baby gently on the floor and started pushing 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFlOalBb6Pr
on its chest. Gently at first, and then with more distress. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpuCImztsmA
"You who were supposed 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ34ujLmmlAo
to die, defied death." Thus the baby started crying again, weakly at 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwGCG52e82w
first but then gained more vigor. "Yet by dying you became closer to 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj8NiNDNAVC
the etherworld, susceptible to its inhabitants." 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsTagXFcWyM
Coughing David stood up 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLUilBTRjw3
and looked at the mother and son figure...No he looked at him and his 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8aDzJ1Fn2g
mother. David didn't want to believe this image, yet deep down he knew 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyJv18SXwUi
it was the truth. "Did...were you the one who brought me back?"940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Booyd05Tx
"No, it was a small 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB5ntGG79A8
miracle, for all of us." David was unsure if he should believe Jester 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAvI3rgQXu4
but before he could question it anymore his vision changed again.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgVZHVV5LEI
He was staring at the 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡB7RGygT5za
wom...his mummy. His mummy who loved him and took care of him, David was940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡM9SI4XVW5j
only good at one thing, getting in the way of his mummy's work. He 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZDYeixJL1H
learned to be quiet after the first few times she slapped him, he 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4yYVx7OxI9
deserved it because mummy did her best to provide for him and David was 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSEQoRUjVCo
just a useless existence, just like his mummy said.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmKQjIFYLhn
But today David got to be usefull. He had the opportunity to make his mummy proud and happy.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7vI0rxVykx
"There you go, David." She said brushing his hair with her hand. "You will make mummy proud, won't you?"940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡE8pdbNRL37
"I will!" Came a squeaky940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡSlpqIeZ1mU
voice. "I will make you proud..est!" David said as he put a book down.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeuROJbtTKo
David was unsure what the name or what the words inside said but it had940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwrirhIZPtE
pictures of flying ships and heroes, something he wanted to be when he 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyTise2vnFv
was an adult.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ227JdD0Kxq
A knock came from a door940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpNsIAqYSYD
and David's mummy went to answer it. She spoke to someone in hushed 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFJ1WJFamPy
tones and then left the room without giving David a glance back. In her 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVVhICWytEL
stead a stranger came. David had never seen the man before and he was 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGgYBqrtoFd
scared of strangers. Whenever a stranger came in with his mummy he was 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeKDIAPyVrS
supposed to be quiet otherwise he wouldn't get food and get slapped for 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3s3yfCRteZ
being a bad boy.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvSmAyTQq4A
That's why he didn't 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWbrKkdZkwW
speak, didn't move, didn't look at the stranger. "Speak up boy, what's 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDPHUFkZ6G
your name?" The man said in a haughty voice.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGjQgXTqGEn
"D..david" the answer 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡllmtklTzqx
came in a whisper. The stranger grunted and came closer to David, moving940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡetPAi5ZoJE
empty bottles with his boots. "I said speak up."940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5xT4C8b50C
"David!" Came out the reply, which sounded too loud in David's ears.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN75T4PcgTK
The man put his hands on940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBe4g42p5u1
Davids shoulders and smiled. "David? I'm David aswell, David Hozzelpoff940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqKuGVdU1S7
to be exact. Do you recognize my name?"940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4LnRXuSX75
David meekly shook his 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ68jxJIo1ZM
head and was shoved to the floor. David hit the floor hard, losing his 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpS0QtFCRkp
breath. "I am the greatest mind of this century!" He crouched down 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9fS3vLl9Pc
putting his face next to Davids. "Soon everyone will know my name, no 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoYCQS4FUOb
matter what my colleagues say or what rumors they spread." He said but 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡiaakfX8x7a
the anger was slowly leaving his voice. "You must understand, I'm not 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDrlU2i6ovs
usually like this, but...but sometime you just reach that point. I'm a 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJolFijc8qR
good man I have a bright future and sometimes you just need obstacles, 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8ObeZQbsSi
you are just that an obstacle that I must conquer." The man was 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHKHJkSZdWd
bubbling. Caressing Davids face with his hand, the other one moving down940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8YJ4sLUGXQ
Davids body.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvht4EKI3YO
Please don't. Came adult David's voice940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLwNg2coVMW
Young David was scared; 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBvbm7ijB8C
he was used to beatings but not being touched in that way. He tried 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrkgIKLGfJm
wiggling away from the man pinned David down with his greater weight. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyGv4qrff0Z
"Stop resisting." Derek hissed. "If everyone just didn't resist I 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqPn9jirLrx
wouldn't be here I wouldn't need to do anything."940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZohz9y99rU
Help me. Save me. Came the child and adult voice intermixed.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRCgCkgh8iF
"Mummy, mummy!" David 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡttFebCh6hx
screamed, tears flowing, a feeling of wetness around his legs. Finally 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9owS77QyRp
the man slammed his palm into Davids face. That stopped all resistance, 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡX27X3CZgOj
after that day David liked to pretend that he lost consciousness, that 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmHXcX6fdO6
everything that happened was a nightmare, but deep down he knew better, 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnOgDE5K0jV
he knew that what he saw and felt was what had happened.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWONjOMM9vu
David didn't even know 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBJWUH4a255
when the man finished, his mind was blank and when he came to he could 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0y2sdJ6Lch
see his mummy looking at him. She scoffed. "Clean yourself up, you're a 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDexbSUENPE
mess. David tried crying but no tears came.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFkphefvBDL
Suddenly the room shifted again and David himself as an adult again. "That was the first time it happened. One of many." 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaCm67g4pAr
David could barely hear 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHLJox2kStP
jester, as all the memories came flowing back. It overwhelmed him and 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvgU7alPYLd
the tears he couldn't find as a child freely flew out of him and he 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUc22c4vw3b
screamed into the void. Out of desperation, out of misery, out of pure 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdfiDeypDSa
anger. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGo6djriEy7
"There are more 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡybvcph3uHg
memories. Let me know when you're ready." David looked at jester, whose 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMi7LmmE1Rj
form changed again. His hood was down but half of his face was covered 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1VUFVG0bid
in a dark like substance. The other looked...looked like a normal adult 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtBwbKqWWu3
male. David almost recognized it but couldn't quite place it.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuNnQYl9eeB
"What else is there to 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrf362VACo5
remember?" David asked as he got up. Jester just smiled. "Just indulge 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJH6QVBKhq
me." Jester waved his hand again and David was standing in front of a 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj73uYPdqYl
mirror. He could see himself, a young teen. With dead eyes and bruises 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡasNFvjSLOn
all around his body. He looked at the glass shard in his hand. The blood940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpw0OUGkT4E
that was spilling down his arm and hand was slowly dripping on the 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjyNaNbsI0
floor. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAVG95gp1KF
Even the pain didn't 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3kEq0EhEn5
offer him solace, it used to be that the pain he inflicted on himself 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡj3L51f0E0R
offered an escape, but no more. One flick of the shard though...and 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRHRdJFRhEO
everything would be gone.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuyD7sgcYnc
~Just like that, give up940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUQXdyvNq6V
end it all. No one will care. ~ That's right, no one cares. Mother is 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡjrwPkjpW69
probably with some man, or trying to get someone who was willing to buy 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHXyHabUen0
Davids body. Would she really mind if he died. He moved the shard closer940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡclRh0UurtV
to his neck, his pulse slowly beating. ~But...what if it gets better? 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXjmVaNNV4i
What if death only brings more pain?~ David paused. "Can't be much worse940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxJEktLYbBD
than this."940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWrVVGmU343
~STOP! ~ David dropped 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWxvG3yOOZK
the shard as if burned. ~It will get better. Just survive. Have to 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUFIal0a7kW
survive.~ David dropped on his knees. That's right all he had to is 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpHgYlm3NNq
survive. Survive and live.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡQ2ODuaCLlT
Everything changed again and David could see his reflection. Scarred, rugged and haunted. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7ewLD8jdAp
" that voice, it was yours." More of a statement rather than a question. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ0waX50zGUF
"Indeed." Jester 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkZ7OFZT2fr
replied. David could actually hear his voice properly, without an echo 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ3Jeb8JVJcp
or any other effects. He never noticed it before but it did sound a lot 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Lml0B7IYM
like his own did.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡWOEC1KnNKJ
"Why did you try 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxvrCAA5u3j
convincing me to kill myself and then stop me? Why not just let me do 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡunczXfoU4z
it?" He said the last part in a whisper; his brain still trying to 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAjFqF1s8Fc
process the influx of memories.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2VJylDuZ8O
"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,"940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡHOlgluaSEP
"You expect me to believe that?"940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEA8V4tVFon
"Believe what you want."940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsP1n7TI0XJ
"How many times? How many of my thoughts were mine?"940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTAXEvdL1t7
Jester chuckled. "All of940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2oP5yPMKyN
them really. To make sure you didn't notice anything was out of the 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpFeY2I90La
ordinary I had to make it look like they were your thoughts."940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZLkg4NOCbJ
"That just 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDHgRhv2oPe
means..."David held his head and groaned in pain. "I'm so confused, in 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkFFCD7n9k1
my memories it doesn't like you're trying to be subtle. What changed?940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAB8ohj9xxK
"It's related to the last memory, I'll show you if you're ready."940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMP2x9Tzf3e
David nodded. "Do it."940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡpglFXIi6FR
Everything shifted. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDnCfeD0Rtq
David was cleaning his 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡZbvBJEooD4
face, in his middle teens and miserable. He wasn't sure when this 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUoSrIXKZbz
grounded life started but it's been a long time now. He learned tricks 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡDQfPUtPjU0
on how to make it easier for himself. By pretending the strangers were 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡbdKXmbPMvw
important he would save himself a lot of abuse, by guessing how they 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1xDZJQBRh7
wanted him to act and acting that way they, sometimes, took pity. Of 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtqIsVVxfad
course not everyone cared; some still had fun abusing a young boy.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡC9r0sn7CCl
His last one was just 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡS33959BkvW
that an abuser. David touched his broken-again nose and the eye that was940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBApgF4E9bG
barely opening. The bitch would be angry again, his face was supposed 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ1uZSbNVlju
to be without bruises. Her clients liked him more when he looked pure. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡs7eCd29NEk
Undamaged goods she loved to say.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdLyR9WmFtx
Right on cue, David 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRaQeeI2DF8
could hear the bathroom door opening and she came in. Sneering she 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnyCKy51he0
slapped David causing him to fall on the floor. "Stupid, idiot boy!" She940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡxr6QSrz5QA
slurred. What a surprise the bitch was either drunk or drugged. "One 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡihgqEiy53K
thing, don't let them hit your face. And look at you! Useless!" She 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuSB3HuaDVY
shrieked and kicked David clumsily.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8pfuoIfxXy
Why was this his life? 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡahz1WadZEc
Should he have taken his life, can he still do it? He looked at her and 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡp1ZQGpuXyi
she seems to have taken offense at that. She scratched at his face and 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ61g3JBhT49
came down on him. "How dare you look at me with those eyes! They're his 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡoTXPWvxJcr
eyes! Someone like you doesn't deserve them!" She continued in a similar940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡT9dxZWzNW7
vein trying to get his eyes. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmlR7TrjTn1
~Enough David.~ A voice 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvwOIcpqqls
resounded in his head. David knew that voice, it was his only friend. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ6NK79g29kt
~Fight back.~ David faught against the urge and voice, after all it was 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡaL4ZVBFsqb
still his mother. ~FIGHT BACK~ Finally David extended his arm with force940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAbf6CyGsRX
and met resistance.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡMyZPrkbSMz
The scratching and 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡUdgp4boxL6
shrieking stopped, he could see his mother on the floor, groaning, 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡdn3B3XZm4o
slowly getting up. Thinking quickly David grabbed a glass bottle and hit940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡspzlThpGSg
the bitch with it. Again and again until all that was left was a glass 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDjkzzK9gw
shard and then he kept stabbing and screaming until his throat and hand 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyTZ3AdlE0k
was raw. Once he couldn't hold the shard he stopped and laughed.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN9WD67EA3Q
Oh god what did he do? 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIP2hPbN7PB
This was his mummy, the one who always protected him, the one who would 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡRetcFX544V
never abandon him a and he..he murdered her. But...no, no, no. She hated940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIdoehjmZFp
him did she? Yeah she was a bitch..NO..she was his mother. Was there a 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrRU2PYAAq1
difference? David started crying and throwing up. He killed her, he 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡf4wXnbxP9C
killed her, he killed her. His head felt as it was going to burst, cries940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡULUfQUeAuN
replaced the laughter as he rolled on the floor covering himself in 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡTONZ4pjU7N
blood.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡFEa2VSYLDO
~that's enough David. Forget, forget everything.~ 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡVAw1MvAvHK
There was a pause and everything quieted down.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡwPiE7QNNIa
A boy named David just 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7LND7YShrv
woke up. Surrounded by empty bottles and rubbish. David shrugged and 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyPtwaZMcHN
winced. He was in pain did he fall? That would explain the blood all 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡJMguwRnijG
over him. Yes he fell and hurt himself. But what about the body...wait 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqFzLyzlgs1
what body? David looked around and couldn't see anyone else in the room940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡURUUg3XEp0
besides him. Why did his head hurt? Why couldn't he remember what he 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡNHGroiqA8V
was...oh that's right. He was going to become a hero and fly on a ship. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡnfwQwxxXTp
Yes, that's what he was about to do when he became all confused, how 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmCPvBfM8ik
silly of him.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡYwRuZHO9dB
Remembering his 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGE308PhBiu
objective, David opened the door and left his old life behind. To enter 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXySzYPwzXC
his living room and find his dad, mum and brother sitting at a round 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡOt6B5HCF2k
table preparing a meal. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXZxxH3whWZ
"There you are David!" 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4uPTaQWnLP
His dad said. "We've been waiting forever, come on I can't wait to start940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9iqGsIJdhq
eating!" He started hitting his utensils on the table. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8Lb3hlrxI4
This isn't the truth.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXsRktYOaRX
David obligingly sat 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5E2grqcIAi
down. "Oh stop, honey. You're going to give children bad manners." His 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCMu411eqN
mum chided playfully. As she put the food on the table and ruffled his 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuffwhJtifw
brothers hair. Sitting down next to David and giving him a warm smile.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡqfDWOvILNk
A dream, nothing else.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkl3jJZm0EL
They all thanked the 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2MZkOfhe91
gods for what they had and started eating. Yes thankful for this happy, 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡmwAUUciQCw
oblivious life. Thankful for good and supportive parents. Thankful for 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡA90j9vAdeH
this lie.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡN4QfIyn0JI
A lie that has to end.940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡLRzYZf2VJi
David was standing at 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡg3mSqr4jdv
the table.. He was sure this wasn't part of any memories, but he was 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡP0W8Szz5of
sure that the boy was him, a happier more healthy him, and the woman was940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡkpWOCS7Z7A
his real mother or atleast someone who looked like her. While the 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡor2Lx5NP3C
brother and man? Something that might've happened if he was luckier? 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡIUMd5MgPc8
Either way David hated 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡAWlQnaX8xc
this. Why, why, why, why didn't he get this happy blissful life. Why 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ7YcTX5EDVa
didn't he get a father who would teach him to become a proper man, why 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡtobloiQWOU
didn't he get a mother who consoled him when he hurt? Why was he all 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡvSKFVmwdKB
alone, without a brother or any other sibling. Why does THIS pale 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ4TrxaprbTh
imitation of his deserves this good life, he'll never appreciate. Why 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGIP7mv8z36
does anyone. When there's so many suffering why do only few deserve to 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡEbEPwD8Xvs
life this happy blissful life?940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡsTJI8oaZoe
The answer was so simple940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡXvgaIQHFhb
that David almost laughed. It didn't come in a whisper by someone else,940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡW0k3wGNGTl
it was his own and he fully knew it. They didn't, they didn't deserve 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡeaiA7GNUOF
this life, no one did. Thus there was only one solution to end it all, 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgi8jwSbdU7
end all misery either present or one that will come in the future. 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡBz94J8Uk67
David decided to start 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡfoXm6Xslho
with this lie, he took the knife and plunged it into his young self. "No940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡybmyqcDkQC
more lies." He took it out and stabbed his father. "No more regrets." 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡyDKw2cyhTU
Next his brother. "No more tears." And finally he stabbed his own 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡuXk2dXStyp
mother. "No more mercy."940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡenq7TZOhaB
With the last stab 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ9linyiuGlD
everything fell apart piece by piece and David found himself staring at 940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡrFe9uUf4RU
his own shadowy reflection. The only thing surrounding them was the vast940Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5l9eBiCKIH
emptiness.
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and then Add to home screen.