Where monsters run wild

[5] Wings

Will came in very late to the dormitory, 10 minutes after the 2nd curfew bell. I hadn't been able to leave the dormitory the whole day, not after reading that letter, not after what it mentioned, all I could do in the present state of mind was stare at the ceiling concocting a theory but it was fruitless, what reasonable theory would make this letter, this death make sense.

Will's eyes were clearly tear stained and even in the dim light of the room I could see smears of red on his white uniform shirt sleeves, blood, I realized with a jolt of horror and I was about to call out to him when I heard something crash onto the floor and a pitiful wail after it.

I got off my bed and stared, Will sat at the foot of my bed, a broken glass bottle at his feet, he was staring at the glass shards like it was the most beautiful thing he'd seen. There was something in his expression, something maniacal, almost feral in his eyes.

He touched the shards gently, then harder, allowing tiny beads of crimson appear on his finger.

"William!" I exclaimed and he looked up, his face etched with a gruesome yet childlike smile.

 "Yes Takeru?" he asked softly as if he were holding a flower in his hands and not a piece of glass that could mortally wound him in his hands.

"What are you doing?" I asked softly, bending beside him and extracting the shard from his hand, cutting myself a little in the process.

"I miss her ...." he said, his eyes were glassy, "She told me she'd never leave."

"Naho?" I asked slowly, Naho, Naho....

Will nodded, "I want to fly too...but I've got no wings...Naho was an angel..that's why she jumped...she flew.." he said wiping his face with a bloody hand leaving red trails on his pale face.

"You knew Will?" I asked slowly, "that she was going to jump?"

"We spoke about it...I wanted to fly too..to jump off without a care in the world, i the end she flew without me.."

"You wanted to fly too?"

"Yes Takeru...I wanted to fly...fly on the wings of death."

"No Will.." I said alarmed as I saw him get up and walk towards the entrance of the dormitory.

"Come with me Takeru." Will said softly.

"Where?" I asked, I was steadily getting more afraid with every word he spoke, what was happening here....

"Somewhere that we found solace."

"Who's we?" I asked fearing the answer.

Will took his time answering, first wiping a bloody hand on his shirt front, creating a horrible stain.

"Everyone who ever wanted to fly.."

"There are more?"

"More than you can imagine."