Kim sat, cross-legged in her witches hut as she gazed In to the roaring fire of the oven. A rustling came from the door and she turned. As It slowly creaked open, it revealed a face she knew all too well. She grinned as she saw the friendly scientist's hands behind his back. A present?
"Duncan! What an honour to be graced by your divine presence!" He smiled but she caught a brief glimpse of fear in his eyes. He sighed and drew the object from his back. Her smile faded. A ruby sword. Her Ruby sword...
"Duncan...I thought I told you..." He closed his eyes and sighed again.
"I know, but I know how much it means to you"
"Meant." She corrected him. "I said I want to forget. If you can't cure it, the least you can do is not remind me about it. I don't want your sympathy." She turned her gaze to her arm,where the violet tendrils weighed and squirmed across her pale skin. She could sense the taints presence both on her body and inside her mind.
"Kim please..."
"Please?" she glared at her friend "Please what? Please forget you did this to me? Or do you not remember? Let me remind you. You turned me into a monster! You could never know what the flux did to me, Duncan. She touched her face and the impurity almost radiated off. "It-" Duncan slammed his fist into the mossy wall. His whole body was shaking and his tears splattered on the grass below.
"But I do know...I've heard the voices too. Do you think I don't regret it? You think I don't hate myself for what I did to you?" Kim staggered to the door and embraced the quivering wreck of a man, crying softly into his shoulder.
"I'm so sorry Duncan..."
"No. It's, It's my fault, Kim. I shouldn't have brought it here. I should have left it. C'mon, do you wanna see the progress I've made?" Kim nodded and the brushed the tears from her cheeks as he took her hand and led her towards their reconstructed home on the hill.
I don't know what's happening to me....I'm hearing things....voices....I think I'm going crazy.....
