{۵}
{An undated diary entree}
It's been a while since I've last written anything halfway decent but I have to get this out somehow. I really don't want to say any of this out loud because what am I going to say? How do I explain the voices I've heard and the disfigured beings walking among us? All of this is terrifying. Just a little bit ago, I heard a dissorted version of my friend's voice. It was telling me to kill everyone in the room. However, I feel like it wasn't talking to me...
After all, Aaron, who was in the room as well, started flinching and eventually stormed off in frustration while the thing spoke. Was it talking to Aaron? Can Aaron see these things too? Has he seen Percy? Or the disfigured human? What about Gigi and my own demon? Fuck, are these everyone's demons?! Please, no. I can't handle this.
{†}
"Good morning, rat."
A looming voice crawls through the noon air. I refuse to open my eyes, fake sleeping to make the demon disappear.
"I KNOW YOU'RE AWAKE, FOOL!"
A freezing force slams into my cheek, leaving me to gasp. I throw myself up, grasping a cross kept beside my bed and holding it up. I squeeze my eyes shut, I don't want the darkness spilling from an adrenaline rush.
"Oh, calm yourself. Open your eyes."
It soothes it's voice, nearly tricking me into actually doing what he wants.
"I'm so sorry for scaring you, I swear it was an accident. Now let me see your eyes, Casper."
I let myself open my eyes very slowly. The demon shows itself slashing at me and sending me to my feet. I rush to the door, not noticing gas-like but also liquid and solid emptiness filling the room like a great flood or hoarder's closet. I toss the hinged wood aside and run out into the wilderness, where the darkness follows like a tail.
I drop to my knees. Harsh breaths break through my teeth.
{۵}
{A diary entree from March 17th}
It's getting worse. It's getting so much more worse that it's painful. I've resorted to using magic to silence the entities and even that hasn't worked. Especially with Percy and this new being who has been appearing lately. He's like a ghost or something, he looks almost exactly like me but with only one heart and a weird marking under his eye. He looks like a mummy or some sort of ancient being.
Fuck. Okay so that new thing is here. It..? Or he..? ...Is watching me right now. He's watching me write. He just laughed.
He's gone. Thank god.
But I'm not done complaining.
I've been so paranoid lately. Herr, hilf meiner verdammten Seele. I've been reading up on demons and what it means when you can see it and honestly? I'm so fucked. Basically, there's a few possibilities.
1) I was born with this ability. (Yeah, no.)
2) A strong demon took away part of my soul, but not enough to kill me or send me into a psychotic craze.
3) Basically two but if I have a demon's deal mark...I am technically a demi-demon or whatever. (It just means that I have a weak moral compass now and if I act on strengthening this part of me, I will develop the abilities I'm supposed learn when I'm reborn after death.)
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