Flames surrounded everything, spreading like a virus, reaching even the places they were never meant to touch.
The sight before her was enough to shatter a heart.
She stood alone, completely alone
Yet the surrounding loneliness was soaked in terror.
Whenever something collapsed, unable to endure the heat of the fire, the sound of it breaking apart only intensified her fear, strengthening her certainty that death was drawing closer with every second.
She stood frozen in the doorway.
Ahead of her was nothing
nothing but fire stretching endlessly into the distance,
calling toward her death.
Suddenly, she began screaming at the top of her lungs, her cries echoing throughout the entire floor.
But tragically, the voices that needed to hear her never did.
Not even the faintest trace of her screams reached them.
It felt as if even the walls of the building had become selfish
Like humans, they too had chosen to turn away, refusing to carry her voice any further.
“My clothes are on fire… oh no!
Help! Someone, please save me!”
The flames had caught hold of her clothes.
They wrapped themselves around her trousers, tightening their grip.
She screamed uncontrollably, begging for her life.
“Auh! I’m burning, no!
Please save me!
No… it hurts!
It hurts so much!”
She kept screaming until the flames finally touched her body.
At first, she had been begging for her life.
Now, the entire floor echoed with her screams of agony.
“It hurts! Mom, where are you?” She cried.
“This fire will consume me! Mom, where are you?
Your daughter is burning!”
Screaming in pain, she called out to her mother
because there was nothing else, she could do.
She knew death had come for her.
But the way the flames struck her body, lashing at her skin,
the screams that tore out of her in response
If anyone had heard them, it would have driven them mad.
Slowly, relentlessly, the fire climbed
from her trousers to her shirt,
and then to her face.
Her entire body was engulfed in flames.
Now it was the turn of that part of life which a person loves the most
The part without which life feels meaningless.
If anything were to happen to it, people would feel they could not go on living.
It is the source of your being; if it’s absent, nothing else in the world belongs to you.
It is from this that your dreams arise,
or that you make someone else your dream.
Without it, people tear at your existence like merciless beasts,
Leaving you hollow and broken.
The most beautiful part of her existence, her face, was now engulfed in flames.
“Help! I’m burning! Doesn’t anyone hear me?” She screamed, her voice raw and torn.
“Ah!Ahh!”
Her cries of agony echoed through the floor.
Suddenly, she felt a presence.
Someone threw a cloth over her body, attempting to smother the flames.
She could feel the coolness spreading over her scorched skin.
The fire that had claimed her body just moments ago was now slowly being extinguished.
The fire had been extinguished, but the pain that remained was far worse than when she had been burning. She now felt the sharp, soul-tearing agony of it for the first time. All she wished for in that moment was death, because being alive had become unbearable. The air she breathed felt like her greatest enemy, each inhalation stabbing her body with invisible, deadly spears, striking her again and again. Every breath became a battle, and even the slightest movement sent waves of excruciating pain through her.
Around her, chaos reigned. Everyone was searching desperately for their loved ones. Those who reunited clutched each other, crying uncontrollably. Among the crowd, her mother was frantically calling for her; her voice raw and broken: “My dear daughter! Where are you? Don’t joke, come to me! You know my heart is weak!”
Her mother had been roaming the floors for over an hour, calling her name repeatedly. Her father and sister were equally frantic, searching every corner. Then suddenly, her mother spotted a girl and cried out, “My daughter!” But when she reached her, the girl flinched, making her mother’s patience snap. She collapsed to the floor, screaming, “Where is my daughter? Someone tells me! Where is my daughter?”
Seeing her mother in such agony, the people around gathered, overwhelmed by her cries. Someone asked a terrible question: “Aunt, your daughter… is she still inside the building? By now, she must have burned!” Hearing this, her mother, already in hysterics, screamed even louder, running toward the building: “My daughter! I’m coming!”
Her father and sister ran after her, trying to stop her from going inside. But her mother, locking eyes with her father, said fiercely: “I will not listen to anyone. She is my daughter, don’t be cruel!”
Her father, moved by her words, and her sister, tears streaming down her face, followed her mother. The silence that fell after the previous chaos was suffocating; the crowd watched in stunned silence. Her mother, collapsing to the ground from sheer grief, screamed: “My daughter is in there! You all are killers! You are my daughter’s killers!”
Her sister tried to comfort their mother, placing a hand on her shoulder, but her mother snatched it away, glaring at both her daughter and husband: “I will never forgive you. I have no right to live either!” Without waiting, she turned and rushed back into the burning building, with her father and sister following desperately behind.
Her sister held her mother tightly with one hand, while her father grabbed her other arm, trying desperately to stop her from going inside.
“Let me go! Leave me! Let me die too, I want to die as well!” Her mother cried, begging them through her tears to let her go.
Still sobbing uncontrollably, she suddenly lost consciousness.
“What happened, Mom? Mom, what happened? Open your eyes!” Her sister cried in panic, shaking her gently while tears streamed down her face.
Her father was terrified. His hands trembled as he called for an ambulance. It felt as if mountains of grief had collapsed upon their family all at once.
The pain was so intense that it didn’t spare her even in her semi-conscious state. She opened her eyes and groaned in agony.
“Why am I still alive? Why haven’t I died yet?”
Her screams were raw, torn from the depths of unbearable suffering. Struggling to look around, she realized they were inside a very large car, being driven by someone in the front seat.
“Ahh! Ahh! It hurts! I’m dying!” She wailed, each word trembling with pain. Her breaths, which used to come and go almost unnoticed, now came in shallow, ragged gasps. The agony was so overwhelming that she silently wished, “If only I could wake up and realize this is just a dream. This pain… it cannot be real.”
“You won’t be hurt. Nothing will happen to you. I won’t let anything happen to you. I will protect you,” a voice said from the driver’s seat.
“Who… who are you?” She asked, her voice trembling. The sound of her voice alone was enough to pierce her soul; it carried a depth of pain so heavy it could split one in two.
“Don’t speak,” he said softly. “You will feel pain. Every time you suffer, I suffer with you. Every time you feel it, I die too.”
“Do you know me?” She asked.
Each time she spoke, her body drained more of her strength, and the pain intensified. Still, she gathered what little courage she had left and spoke again.
“Don’t try in vain… I won’t survive. There is no desire left in me to live,” she said with great difficulty, groaning through the pain.
“I know,” he replied quietly. “But you will have to live. If you don’t survive, then along with you, another life will die as well… and that life will be mine.”
“Why do you care so much about me, as if you know me?” She asked.
“I don’t even know you.”
As soon as she said this, the pain no longer allowed her to speak or even to hear anything else.
The agony took complete control of her body.
It was as if the pain itself wanted her to keep writhing,
as if it were punishing her for mistakes she didn’t even understand,
sentencing her to suffer without mercy.
She had reached the hospital.
They were taking her out of the car.
So many voices surrounded her, echoing all around, but the hands holding her and laying her onto the stretcher felt like one single hand.
She could feel every bit of it, every touch through unbearable pain.
Perhaps if she lost consciousness, the pain would lessen.
But she was still aware, still writing in agony.
How rotten and cursed my fate is, she thought bitterly,
that in such a difficult moment, I have the support of strangers…
I have no one of my own by my side.
Maybe my family thinks I’m already dead,
maybe they’re mourning someone else, believing it to be my body.
Her thoughts drifted helplessly as her eyes stared upward,
and from both her eyes, acid-like tears streamed down, burning just as much as the pain inside her.
They were rushing her toward the emergency room.
She could feel everything.
How unfortunate I am, she thought bitterly.
If only I had known this was going to happen to me, I would have asked everyone for forgiveness.
Because I know myself, I won’t be able to bear this pain.
I will die.
I don’t even want to live anymore.
The very reason for my existence has already been taken from me by fate,
and I’ve been left abandoned in this world, humiliated and alone.
She cursed her destiny and herself relentlessly.
Now she was inside the emergency room.
The moment she arrived, chaos erupted. Doctors rushed around as if they were seeing such a case for the very first time.
She could see death standing frighteningly close.
If only someone could tell them, she thought with a cold, painful sigh,
that every time they move my burned body from one place to another,
what they are doing to my soul is far worse than what they see.
She looked toward them, helpless, carrying that thought in silence.
Suddenly, in the midst of all that agony, a strange calm began to settle over her.
The painful sensations started to fade.
I’m dying… yes, I’m dying, she murmured with a sense of relief.
At that moment, nothing could free her from pain the way death could.
A faint smile appeared on her lips, one that no one noticed,
but she felt it.
She was happy that she was finally leaving this painful world.
She felt hatred for her own existence
and relief that she would soon be free from this suffering body.
Her sense of peace deepened.
The pain has almost vanished now.
She was certain she was dying.
She looked around one last time, then lifted her gaze upward and whispered,
“Goodbye, cruel world.”
And then her body stopped moving.
The writhing that had once consumed her ceased,
as if her pain had finally released its hold on her body.
It was a beautiful morning.
Peace lays everywhere.
The fragrance of fresh flowers drifted through the air, carried gently by the breeze.
Birds were chirping.
It was her first morning, but she had not opened her eyes yet.
Everyone was waiting for that moment.
The doctors were anxious, afraid of what would happen when she finally woke up.
How would she face herself?
Would she be able to handle the truth, or would it become too much for her?
What if she tried to harm herself?
What troubled them the most was that she had no one of her own by her side.
The man who had brought her in had already paid the bill and left.
The doctors felt a deep sadness over this, too, because at such a time, the presence of a loved one was desperately needed.
A nurse entered her room and stood there, staring at her quietly.
She took a long breath and murmured,
“Hmm… who knows what sin this poor soul committed, that this happened to her.”
“You’re right.”
The nurse startled at the sound of that voice.
It was the senior lady doctor standing behind her.
She immediately straightened up.
“Sorry, ma’am,” the nurse apologized.
“Sorry for what?” The doctor replied calmly.
“You’re telling the truth. Do you know “A few months ago, we had a case just like this,” the doctor continued quietly.
“That girl was burned completely, too.”
“She took great pride in her loved ones.
She loved her fiancé deeply.
She truly believed that he would accept her.”
“But when he came to see her, when he stood in front of her and saw her in that condition…”
The doctor paused.
“Do you know what he said?”
The nurse asked with sudden interest,
“What did he say?”
“That sentence still haunts me,” the doctor replied softly.
“He said, ‘The beautiful face I was madly in love with is now covered in scars. I can’t accept these scars.’”
The nurse gasped in shock.
“Then… what happened?” She asked, desperately, to know more.
The doctor fell silent for a moment.
“She left this world quietly,” she finally said.
“Those words pierced her like a poisoned dagger…
and they took her life.”
This is unfortunate, the nurse said in a sorrowful tone, “Alright, you stay here, and if she regains consciousness, immediately call one of us.” The doctor gave her instructions.
“Okay,” the nurse nodded
She slowly opened her eyes, taking in her surroundings with growing astonishment. Then, her gaze fell on her hands and froze. What she saw made her heart skip a beat… because it was real.14Please respect copyright.PENANAw08zrZumHM


