Mind Games

Chapter 41 - Amy

The entity that was Amy was gloating.

To it, there was one goal to its existence. Exterminate.

If it had a physical body, it would kill off all these hateful fools by brute force. But all it had was it's mind. So it's only strategy was to turn the fools against themselves.

It didn't understand where the anger came from. Neither did it care.

All that mattered was the end goal.

With every human subject, its powers of manipulation became stronger.

It was interesting to discover that some of the subjects were connected to each other. And could be manipulated against each other. It became a game. And the game became more enjoyable than the goal.

The girl had gotten away. For now.

But the boy was here, in this house, with the dead insecure old woman.

He was sleeping now. But he would awake soon.

It could sense the boy was breaking. He had lost too much, too soon. He was strong, but his loss made him brittle. He would shatter. And the thing that called itself Amy, looked forward to this gleefully.

In other parts of the country, at the same time, the consciousness watched over its victims like a malignant God. It watched them with black humour as they cried, whined, ranted, lusted.

They were filled with sins, these creatures. They disgusted the entity like maggots would disgust most people.

It wanted to exterminate.

Now, as it watched the boy, its algorithms worked out its next strategy.

It would tell the boy that his two best friends had abandoned him. It would tell him that his father was planning to leave with his old lover. That his mother would have committed suicide eventually even if his father hasn't been shot by his lover's mother.

The entity felt a rush of evil pleasure as it's algorithm suggested another possibility. To take on the avatar of Nancy - the woman who had killed his father. To let his eyes open to the crazy old woman who had shot his father down like a rabid dog.

It watched the boy toss restlessly in his sleep. It looked like he was having a nightmare. All the more better to break him.

Nancy's wrinkled lips stretched into a hideous smile.

Soon he would awake. Soon it would toy with him. Soon he would break. Another digusting creature eliminated. Goal achieved.

It settled near the boy and waited patiently.

A part of it in a different place, at the same time, watched as a blond teenage girl walked into her bathroom. Mascara running down her face, razor blade in hand.

She thought her boyfriend was cheating on her. And the spineless wuss decided to kill herself instead of dumping him.

The entity grinned. Of course he hadn't really cheated on her. But she trusted Amy more than she trusted the boy she had dated for four years. Well, too bad for her.

The entity knew her boyfriend too. He did cheat on her in a sense. But only with Amy. Fantasising about things he couldn't discuss with his goody-two-shoes girlfriend.

But he loved the girl. He would read the text she sent him when he woke up. And once he realised she had slit her wrists for him, the guilt would slowly corrode his mind. And soon enough it would be another creature exterminated.

The entity gloated as it planned. This game was fun. Find out the interconnected links. And there were so many of them.

Ryan cried out in his sleep and the entity turned its focus back to him.

Soon he would wake up. And soon he would die.

The entity grinned. And waited.