Curse Of The City

paid for her husband's sins

I don't know who to address this letter to but
To anyone who sees this years after
I regret joining them and being part of what they did
I don't know what to do now
They won't let me go
And they won't let the people that live in this City go either
They want to kill Us
I wish...

Cleo read the letter out loud but she couldn't read the rest of the words because the rest of the letter was not readable, the rest of the letter was covered in dry blood.. Whatever this founder did was not something ordinary, he tampered with dark forces he couldn't handle but for what reason? They didn't know.

They just stood there rooted to the spot as there was heavy silence around the room.

"His body was found in the woods of this very city, battered and brutally disfigured. It was an ugly sight but the deed had been done, his wife planned to leave this City and start a new life
But the morning after she was supposed to have travelled, her body was found decapitated and her fingers were smeared in her own blood. She... Paid for her husband's sins but it wasn't over there. More bodies were found as the months went by and no one knew who was committing the murders, it shook the whole city. People would be scared to go out to work,kids would be scared to go out to play with their friends. It was really a time of fear in our City.

It took us a while to realize that the people who died were people who opened their doors to find out about sounds they heard,went out at night, looked in mirrors at night,looked out their windows at night and went to the woods at night as well. " Mabel said breaking the silence.

"This curse also stops us from ever leaving this City, we are forbidden to leave... From the day we are born here. We die here. Yes there's a way to stop this curse but it's temporarily. You have to sacrifice your loved one and eat a part of their corpse." She added as she closed her eyes and shook her head " it will keep you alive yes but you have to deal with the fact that you can never be normal for the rest of your life and deal with the soul crushing guilt of killing someone you love. It's not worth it but well that's the only way" She said as she opened her eyes and moved around the shelf.

" It's 6pm, let's get home before it gets dark. Thank you Mabel for everything tho we might not have found a solution we're a bit grateful. May we borrow a book or two about the founder? " Kelly said as she casually picked one book up." Sure but take these, it'll let you experience and truly understand" Mabel said as she handed them 3 books.

"It's about time we went back to my house" Mabel said as she exited the room with the friends following closely behind her with the books in their hands, what a city history! Why and how the fuck did they even get into this mess?!

Too late to cry about it now. Now they were going to do the best they could to find their way out of this curse because they realized they weren't the only ones suffering from it but also the people of the City. They had to do it for all of them..