The Red Eyed Girl

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"The world has gone mad.

Whispers of death in my ear day & night.

Relentless, unstoppable, & never-ending."

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Lights flickered in a grim yellowish shade from the old fluorescent tube in the ceiling, I stared at it while lying on my back, wondering if that is the color of the Sun.

The echoes of death constant,...like a buzz,.. I'm used to it by now.. I put my right hand behind my head trying to get a good view of the ceiling, my sudden movement made the bed produce those annoying squeaky noises that make your body cringe, but ...given the years of my stay here, I simply ignored it. Paying no heed to the noises and the buzz, I continued staring at the ceiling.

I never noticed those dark spots in the right corner of the ceiling, which should be noticeable since it's all painted in white. It almost look like an... I stopped... I cleared my head from what I'm trying to imagine, not today.

Today is a good day.. a weird day to be exact, they didn't conduct any experiments on me.

I found myself wondering about my days... my days which are usually hazy, I often forgot what date it is, my life- reduced in a routine which I followed for almost thirteen years.

I guess I can't complain.. it is a privilege after all ..to become a lab rat in this madhouse, rather than the alternative of being banished into the unknown regions...Lucky me.

The cell where I'm in,.. well I prefer it to call my cell since I can't get out.. the space is just the right size to fit a bathroom and a bed, I have nothing else in this room cell just a bed, when its time to eat they bring it to me, and my clothes they bring that to me as well...and if your a person who's full of positivity then technically I'm a very important person.

The walls around me beautifully painted in most bright dull color anyone can think of... white, even the bed I'm laying right now is colored in white, my shoes are white, my clothes are white, these are not even clothes they're like uniforms with an embroidered sigil ....colored... again... in white...even my panties are white and everything you see with your eyes is white. Well except to that old fluorescent tube in the ceiling..anyway..my days are typically filled with experiments that bore me to death, electrocution, psychological test, you know the usual stuff and sometimes they throw in some flavors putting you into a barrel of water and then drowning you.. super boring right? and the people who conducted it? well... after every session, they flash these trained robotic smiles, as they comforted me with their insincere sympathy on how brave I was during every test, huhu poor me,..they even tap my head now and then which I find disgusting, telling me that I'm getting better, that I'm showing progress, that I can finally have a normal life!

What a laugh.

I will probably die out here.

I was admitted here since I was seven years old.. when my region was left with nothing but darkness and the one who caused it?....*ding dong* you're right !.....me...-a large-scale infestation is the cause why my parents are dead...., friends..., dead, neighbors..., dead, dead, dead, all dead... but me.

You might think I should cry at this point... but.. the truth is... I don't know what to feel about what happened to my region or what I did to my region,.... when suddenly you opened your eyes saw a field with nothing but darkness, what could you do as a kid? I did not see the last moments of my parents, or my friends, or my neighbors, they're just... gone. Just like that.

Infestation is the darkness that looms in the area and attaches itself to a person making the person commit suicide or kill another person, these kinds of infestations are mild, which can be taken care of immediately, but a large-scale infestation, however, is when everything will be consumed in darkness all at once... and in silence.... everything will be gone.

All of this shit started a hundred years ago, the year 2030, when the eclipse happened, it was written in history that it was supposed to be just a phenomenon and that the Sun will be back but here we are... a hundred years later and the Sun still hasn't shown up. And the darkness grew.. ready to consume it all.

Year 2030, the great dark age, the age where half of the world's population- wiped out in a slow silent motion, and that half population? ...that I'm talking about.. has taken their own lives.... And yes, suicide...or murder..at first it started with a rumor that more and more people are committing suicide, and families killing each other, and it is because the sun still hasn't shown itself so the demons have possessed the people.. then... an incident happened where 6,000 thousand people jump into their deaths which made the public,....well yeah stunned & terrified.

At first, the officials only announced that it was a just coincidence, an accident so to speak, that there's nothing to be afraid of...after all the 2oth century was the epitome of technology, nothing is unexplainable. Until....a large scale of infestation happened..., even the lights which in those time people are proud of ...serve nothing in the face of darkness. You can only guess what happened after that.

But I guess, humanity being as self-preserving as ever, mutated some abilities, which I guess I'm a part of... is it a natural response to a dark world?...I don't know...I'm not an expert. The origin of the power of the eyes is lost in translation after a hundred of years, and people.... just continued on having abilities.

They told me I'm special, that these red eyes of mine are of myth.

A death seeker.

I'm the only red-eyed in my region and my parents are pretty normal people who farm for a living, my region, "Region 88" is on the other side of the globe it's pretty far from where I'm at right now, Region 13.

The world was split into 100 Regions after the dark age, these 100 regions are connected by a long bridge, and are considered to be a safe place free from infestation but after what happened to my region.... only 99 remains. The urban cities are from Regions 1 to 20, regions with most beautiful lightings or as my father explained, a different kind of world gleaming with different colors of luminescent lights... and my region is one of the provincial places in the world, we don't have fancy gleaming lights we only have one port of fire were the resident keep it burning.

After what happened in Region 88 I heard they demolished the bridge that connects my regions to others... completely separating it from the rest of the regions.

For my abilities, I don't know anything about it and I never manifested anything when I was a kid until the infestation in my region happened. Until..I.. happened.

I don't feel special. They said that death seekers can look into the future deaths of every person by touching them and can see through every infected person but I don't have that kind of trait.

My trait is kind of different, like I said earlier I was the one who caused the infestation in my region, well according to them, I caused it, they said that I called forth the darkness and death itself. Well I don't know how I did that yet they call me.... The Demon Child.

Well, I guess they right about that, I feel like death is constantly on my shoulders it whispers who wants to die, which direction, people who are filled with unbearable sadness, unbearable life & unbearable sorrow.

I got up from the bed and felt the cold surface of the floor on my feet as I walked straight to the attached mirror on the wall, the mirror is as tall as the ceiling which I find rather disturbing considering I'm a midget, I glance up to the ceiling thinking who the hell came up with this idea.

I turn my attention to the image in front of me... I stared at it and all I can see is a person with a face I don't know,....she is a stranger, a face which I'm afraid to see, her eyes burned like fire, her face white as milk, her hair stained in grey and her cold expression sends shivers into my soul.

That face is me.

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