Befriend Your Demons

Chapter 2 - The Rundown

-----AGMOS-----

"What was that?" Achille scolded.

"Calm down Achille, it was just a bit of fun."

"Fun? Fun! You call being reckless fun?"

"Chill! It's not like we're in Ink's mind anyway."

"Exactly! We're in another person's thoughts! We don't know how fragile her mind is!"

"Agmos," Swindle sighed, "I think she's right."

"Fuck off, the both of you! I'm gonna go home and see how she set up my room."

I hadn't any idea where that outburst came from, but I didn't care. I was too focused on getting home and seeing what I had to play with. When I opened the door to my new room, I smiled and found that everything was set up just the way I like it, I even had my dog. The sound of heels clicking brought me to turn and see Zara taking off her shoes. As she leaned against the hallway walls for support, I couldn't stop myself from staring at her cleavage and smirking.

"Zara," I smiled.

"Agmos," she replied with a sly smile of her own.

"I didn't know you lived here too."

"My room is right across from yours, actually. Woah, I just got a big jolt of sadness."

"Yeah, me too. I didn't know she was awake."

"She's not, she's dreaming and she's about to force herself awake. Come on, follow me."

I was dragged by Zara to a dark room full of files and in the center was a well. As we peered into the well, we saw the creator shoot up from her nightmares and cover herself with the blanket before sobbing uncontrollably. Zathena joined us and not too long after, so did the rest of the group.

"It's alright, Kate," Zathena spoke calmly.

"What was she dreaming about?"

"Reach into the sadness cabinet. It'd be the most recent file."

I looked around until I saw a sad, decrepit looking filing cabinet which I assumed represented sadness in Kate's mind. I opened the bottom drawer and grabbed the front most file only to open it and read some of the most heart-breaking things, heart-ache, lies, cheating...rape. I could feel nothing but sadness as I looked over the file and I realized that this was not who I was. I'm the hot-head in the group, I don't get depressed.

"That's why she shares you guys with Ink," Zara explained. "Kate has a hard time feeling anything other than sadness and torment. She wants to be seductive, hence why I possess that quality, and she wants to be so much more than what we can offer. She knows that's who she is, but she just can't seem to figure out how. Kate felt inspired when she heard about you four so much so that she actually reached out to your creator and asked for her permission to use you all in her own mind so that she can feel something more than pain."

"Woah," we all gasped.

"Where we are right now, in her mind, she's called it Lacrimosa and it means Our Lady of Sorrows. She built this place to escape a very toxic memory, a memory from which I was born. She was married to somebody who she thought would never say a mean thing to her on purpose, somebody who would never hit her, somebody who would never cheat on her, and somebody who would never rape her and then say she deserved it."