The Unrevived

18 | Neverending pain

Settings: the factory

John Hoe

Your perception of me is a reflection of you.

~ Kar'if

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I was healing.
That's what the doctors had said.
My accident was a brutal one and no one except my men were there for me.
My wife, who I had loved more than anything in this world, left me. But before leaving, she gave me the responsibility of a diamond. That diamond was very hard to find.

I never paid attention to Revina because I had held her as the reason for her mother's death when she was just merely a thirteen-year-old girl. I realised her importance after she left me. She had run away to live with Rebecca who wasn't trustworthy, just like her mother.
I panicked every day, whether that maids 'good for nothing' daughter had done something to my poor Revina. It makes my heart throb at the thought of it.

I didn't know what to grieve more than this.
I had promised myself, that till my last breath I will keep on looking for her. I will find you Revina, I will find you, dear.

The emotions were like a singe to my empathy.
I had many sources from where I could look for her but I didn't have a single photo of her. I was that cruel.
She had stolen her mother's possessions when she was running away so even that didn't help.
I looked around my whole house but I was left with nothing.

I had wanted to go with The Daks to look for Revina in Chilé, but we met with an excruciating accident.

We were on the highway to Chilé, when a bus full of passengers rammed us from behind and our car lost its control. We crashed deliberately into a tree.
Three of The Daks died on the spot but one survived and took my injured body to a nearby hospital.
There we persuaded the doctor to do the treatment in an isolated place. That's why we chose the factory's location.

I had lost a lot of blood and the nerves of my leg were severely damaged due to the forceful impact. My chances were one in a fifty, and it was a miracle that my men found the girl on time.
I would give anything to that girl for what she did but she had already run away.

Revina. She was the only one I needed the most in my life right now. I wish I could make her mother proud by finding her.

Marie, I love you. I will find your daughter and get her back to where she actually belongs.

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I was in the frontmost room of the factory. The factory was invaded by the musty smell of dust and glassware.
Many glass pieces were shattered and sprawled onto the floor, reflecting my horrible face onto them.
This place was abandoned for years yet it still held its structure intact. The walls all grey with no paint, the doors all wooden and they creaked whenever they were opened, there were a countable number of windows and half of them were shattered, there was no sight of human settlement around only silence kept us company.
Now, I preferred to sit down, I was becoming old and I couldn't keep myself up after the surgery.
My men had gone to prepare me a meal but I wasn't hungry. My thoughts made my stomach full.

I wanted to have a peaceful dinner with Revina. I wanted to explain to her everything that had happened. Did I want to ask her, how was she keeping up for these many years? I wanted to keep her beside me and cradle her in my arms till she fell asleep.
I wanted her to have the warmest bed ever. I wanted her to have the best food made in Trineapolis. I wanted her to have the best of everything that I could possibly give her.