Who We Are (A Speck of Dust)

8: Day 11

12:12am

Jane Doe:
Tell me about your greatest fear

Saint Sherlock:
Starting it heavy, huh?
Hm. Lemme think.
Oh
My fear of open water

Jane Doe:
What about it?

Saint Sherlock:
I used to love the sea and ocean
I still do.
But there was this one time when I
was in a beach. I was 18.
I was enjoying my day of jet skiing
and the most fucked up thing
happened.

Jane Doe:
What?
WHAT HAPPENED
OMG TELL ME

Saint Sherlock:
Take a chill pill, Jane
It was an open water and the beach
that I was in was a pier.
I was planning to go to the next island when
I noticed a large shadow just beside my jet ski.
It was a fucking shark, man
I was scared shitless.

Jane Doe:
OMG
O M G
THAT WAS AWESOME
And yeah, scary af
How did you get out?

Saint Sherlock:
I drove away as soon as I saw it got farther away.
And that was the last time I went
jet skiing

Jane Doe:
Aw, dude!
That's sad!
Open water is awesome af

Saint Sherlock:
I don't disagree
But you can't deny that it was also
scary as hell
Anyway, what's yours?

Jane Doe:
Ah of course
I'm scared of the inevitable.

Saint Sherlock:
You mean death?

Jane Doe:
Yup.

Saint Sherlock:
Why?

Jane Doe:
It's funny actually.
You think that I would get used to seeing people die
but every damn time it scares the hell out of me
Like, that shit will happen to me, too
That everything I've done will be nothing
Forgotten
I would be just one of the billion people who tried to
make a difference but failed

Saint Sherlock:
That's where you're wrong
You might not be aware of it but you'd
get to touch people's lives even in the
smallest of ways
We leave imprints in their minds and
we get to be those stories they pass on
their grandchildren and we get to live
a million more generation

Jane Doe:
Wow. That's. Wow.
You never fail to amuse me. Huh.

Saint Sherlock:
That's a perk of being French

Jane Doe:
Har har.
Anyway, I realized that mine was too deep so
let me share one more fear

Saint Sherlock:
Aren't you a bit talkative?

Jane Doe:
Oh shush, don't complain.

Saint Sherlock:
Okay, okay. Go tell.

Jane Doe:
My fear of spiders.

Saint Sherlock:
Now that's more normal.
Why? Did something instigate that?

Jane Doe:
Again, this one is funny.
I used to play with spiders.
You know those little spiders you get to buy for five coins and inside a matchbox? And you make those
little critters fight with each other until eventually
one of them eats the other?
Yeah, I played that.
Anyway. I was 12 when I had this really weird dream
where a humongous spider was chasing me 'til the
end of the cliff.
So when I woke up in the morning, I freaked
out at the sight of a spider on the wall.

Saint Sherlock:
You have a lot of funny stories
And I can't believe you actually played with those critters.
Aren't you from an aristocrat heritage?

Jane Doe:
Yeah.
But I used to sneak those off.
Our house helpers helped me buy too.

Saint Sherlock:
That is one cool childhood.
You're really cool, Jane!

Jane Doe:
I know ;)
But anyway, I don't want you to miss out on the
beauty of the blue water so I'm officially inviting you
to accompany me on the beach sometime soon.
WE ARE GONNA JET SKIING.

Saint Sherlock:
What
No
I told you I'm afraid of it
You can't force me to do it

Jane Doe:
We will always be afraid of the things we
don't want to deal with ever.

Saint Sherlock:
I...
You have a point.
Jane?
Merci.