Interrogation..... For Humanity's Sake

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What followed was 4 hours of Q&A non-stop.

"Why do you bleed so much? If we wound you, you bleed without stopping, no healing." She seemed intrigued by this, and I realized they were really clueless about humans.

With my mind, I opened my deepest wound. The one on my shoulder.

"We bleed because we don't heal fast. Our cells are programmed to take months to heal a wound like this. I am special, which means this wound cannot kill me, but to a normal human, a wound like this, untreated for five minutes can kill them. Understand this, the human body cannot survive without a limit ammount of blood in his or her body. Anything that injures the spinal cord causes death or paralisys. Anything that stops the heart from moving causes death. Anything that stops our breathing causes death.

But you should know, there is more than 1 kind of death. There's the physical death, and then, there's the emotional death."

"What is the diference between these?"

"Emotional death is worse than bodily death. When your body dies, that's it. The soul goes to the Goddess, who allows us to be reborn again, or not, according to our will. Emotional death is worse. You're alive, but you dont want to live. You eat because you have to not because you want to. A touch loses it's importance. A beautiful sunset turns into nothing more than just....... nothing. No meaning, no beauty. It's not even worth living, because you dont feel pleasure, you dont feel nothing."

I concentrated very hard, not to cry at this point. I needed to be strong for my people. And to prove to these monsters we aren't weak.

I felt Blarion, but I ignored him. I did not need his support when he was responsible for this.

After explaining everything I could, I left. No permission, nothing. I just got up and left.

The aliens stopped and stared at my passing, and every where I went I felt their stare. Some malevolent, others curious. But all stunned at my markings. I tuned them off, and followed my heart until I found what I was looking for. The exit door. Stuppidly left unharmed, unprotected. I looked outside and saw it was a 20 meters fall to the ground. Like I cared. I saw a tree ahead, a pine tree, and walked backwards, until the wall meet my back, and I ran forward, at all speed, which apparently had increased. Because what I should take 1 minute running (it was a super wide corridor) took me five seconds. At the last contact with the ship's floor, I jumped, keeping in mind my mark, and flew through the skies, landing perfectly on the tree, which is what I had wanted.

I climbed down of it as fast as I could and ran into the forest, feeling myself home. I ran until the stream I heard as soon as my feat touched the ground when I climbed down the tree, and my knees colapsed.

I colapsed to the floor, my mask cracked, and I mourned for the destruction of humanity as I knew it.  The first time I cried, seriously cried, for the loss I was experiencing. I had cried for Filipe, but this was different.

The grief of thousands of babies, children, teenagers dying, humanity, animals, plants and trees, all dying. All dead.

I screamed in gried, but my voice didnt come out as a scream. It came out as keening melody, as if I was singing. And in my mind, I heard a song, which I modulated with my voice.

While I was singing, the forest turned absolutly silent, even the trees stopped moving with the wind, it was like it was a spell I was releasing in it. Here and there, I saw a bit of the animal survivors this world still had. They heard my song, attentively, and then, as one, they joined me. A wolf howled in felt grief, an Owl, joined her voice to us, a Coyote answered the song that was sang in our souls and suddenly the forest wasnt silent anymore. Was an harmony, a conjoined expression of grief.

People used to say animals have no souls, but who could doubt. Dogs, cats, mountain lions, all set aside they natural prey/predator relationship to join the song.

The melody ended and they scattered, leaving me alone again by the stream. I was never alone though. 5 minutes later, Blarion arrived. It is clear he thought I was trying to scape, but I wasnt; I just wanted my forest. My real and truthful home.

He had come alone, fearing I'd kill his guards if they said something wrong. His mind was closed to me, but I was thankful for it.

Without a word, I turned my back on him, and continued staring across the perfection of the river. The wolf was still here, watching us.

I sang the chorus of the grief song and the wolf howled. I felt Blarion flinch and I stopped singing.

"Even animals feel. They fear, they love, they have grief. They understand. Which is more than your own people ever can. You should never have come here. You should never have destroyed us. What is left now is misery, grief, sadness. I wish I could punish you for eternity for this."

I sang again still not ready to end my grief period and only the predators joined me now. The prey had run away, far away from Blarion's presence.

Blarion receeded back into the forest, until the tree line, and  sat down, listening. I hoped he listened well.

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