The room is dark, green fumes the main source of lighting hover around the space like ghosts. In the silence, there are murmurings. Skeletons are sitted on chairs. Hats, pocket watches, canes, hands rest on different tables.
Yuri finds them an empty table, Eesha scoots closer to him, with eyes moving about the space in weariness. A skeleton grins at her, Eesha quickly averts her gaze.
A tune disturbs the silence, it comes from the center of the room. A music note appears, it flies to Eesha before disappearing. Another note follows with another tune.
Yuri holds her hand. The room is now silent. A skull emitting red light from it's hollow eyes and nose appears on a piano.
"Doesn't it feel good to be good tonight" Eesha's heart skips a beat.
Musical notes and symbols fly. They hover and circle around Eesha before moving to the ceiling igniting candles. They form a trail that leads and displays the Musician. A slim tall figure wearing a tailored blazer, he has on a top hat with small bones set in horizontal lines, twine wrapping them in place. His long boney fingers are set on piano keys.
He stretches his fingers, licks his lips then grins. With that he begins to play. Notes fly and table shakes, Eesha's feet tap without her knowledge.
"It feels so good to be so good, tonight. This is a feeling that I'll holdddd tight.
Da ra ra Da ra ra ra"
A woman with her whole face painted white and a curvy figure appears playing the trumpet.
Eesha's eyes darts to Yuri to see him staring at her. He feels her stare, he glances at Eesha and she quickly averts her gaze.
"Focus on me and then you will see,
the might and the sight of the being of the dream"
"The being of the Dream" Two more identical curvy women appear walking on thin air.
They sashay leaving a trail of smoke.
"Da ra ra Da ra ra ra ra" A hand appears on the piano, there's a doll dressed just like Eesha with it. One finger pulls one hand of the doll up, Eesha's hand goes up her eyes are wide and so is Yuri's. The hand comes smack on Yuri's face, she jumps on the seat, somersaults and spins, skirt flaying about. Eesha screams.
She waltz with the wind. The crowds of skeleton gather around Yuri pushing him down. Eesha flies about the room dancing to the beats.
"With me, you'll see.
The might and the sight
And the wonders of me".
Eesha's mind struggles but her body follows the command of the hand controlling the doll.
She dances for a long time, when the music finally comes to an end she blinks and they're in an another room. There is a table between Eesha and the Musician, his glowing red eyes are set on her, at the corner is the piano with the three identical beautiful woman laying on it.
The hand which was controlling the doll pours a drink into a glass tumbler. It offers to Eesha and she declines.
"You summoned me, Lady Eesha. I'm here and you are mute" His voice is smooth.
More like you brought me here against my own will and I don't know who you are and ...
"Don't fret around me. I am your friend. I am known as Tïme"
Eesha's heart skips a beat.
Time is not your friend. Her mother occasionally told her.
"Tïme?"
He nods, his lips are painted as if they've been torn apart then stitched again. A menacing grin it is.
"You have my form"
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Chasing Tïme
Short StoryIf you could go back in time, will you do it? There was a reason, Eesha Amaddin avoided her aunt's house. Apart from her being strange, it was precisely because she was crazy. But after a fight with her mother, Eesha follows a strange pull that ta...
