Gosh, it tastes like Budweiser.
Sitting down on my sofa in my dull and poorly lit living room, I try to switch on the TV, but the remote doesn’t work.
Something catches my eye in the corner of the living. I feel goose-bumps all over me.
Someone is there in the corner.
I can’t see his face, but I see he is wounded, blood running down in his left shoulder and down his neck. He is murmuring something. I stand up and walk to ‘it’.
Okay dude, 'beserk mode' on. I ain't afraid of no ghost. Not before and definitely not now.
“Look I said I really want to rest - stop bothering me!” I shout at it, furious I stomp my way towards it and grab its right shoulder and spin its body around. I know I will usually see a horrible face and that is supposed to frighten me. But I have never been scared.
I turn ‘it’ around and I immediately see a streak of blood across the right cheek of its face, a face that I am only too familiar with. My own.
I drop the can of fake beer on the wooden tile floor and take a few steps back.
“Who are you? What do you want?”
“I need your help” the entity says, the thing that has the same face has mine. I don’t know how it is talking as I did not see it moving its lips whilst it was talking. Its voice was in my head.
I lose my train of thoughts, spiralling out of control and that train has crashed in my head. I feel dizzy and my head starts to spin. I can barely walk back to the sofa as my body becomes so heavy and my eyes so sleepy. Resting on the sofa, I fall asleep. Whatever happened, what I saw, I will have to process it later.
1st December
Karin: Love
Location: Adib’s house, Bumi
Poor Adib. I thought to myself.
“It has been a long time since I met you.” I turn around and see a familiar face, another me, another Adib. No, another Karin. We are shadows of the same man. Doppelgangers.
“Yes, it has been a long time brother” I stand up much easier, as my wounds heal faster in the presence of the real Adib. I shake my hands with the Karin who is always by Adib’s side. We call him 'Satu' - yes, that means the number one. It was a long time ago, that we had abandoned our names and call ourselves by numbers.
Satu looks at me, and he is worried. “You took a bad hit; you must have fought with one of the leaders - was it Selym?”
“Yes, I would have been killed if I had not been able to travel to this world in an instant.”
“Hmmm, the wound on your face has not fully healed. I think you drained too much from Adib”
I touch my face and I can feel the dried up blood. I scratch off the crusty blood and feel a ridge, a scar on my right cheek. “Oh damn it”
“You know we are going to have call you Scarface now, right?”
I frown. I have always loved my - I mean Adib’s - good looks. The face is the most important thing for any being, whether it is for humans, my kind and animals. I hope no one will judge me wrong for having the scar.
Satu interrupts my thoughts. “What have you learned there?”
“It’s happening already, everything the Princess had foretold us is unfolding as we speak.”
Satu glances down. I can see it in his face, he is lost in his thoughts. He is worried about the future, especially for the future of Man.
“These are dangerous times. Very dangerous times. Whatever rules we had to protect ourselves no longer apply. The chaos will feed the vengeful opportunists.”
“Satu, there is one more thing you need to know about. The Princess believes that there is an unaccountable element in this new development."
“You mean a puppet master” Satu has heard of this before. He knows there is always that unaccountable element that pushes sides to war.
“Yeah, something like that but the question is always who is pulling the strings of the puppet master” I answer back.
We both look at sleeping Adib. He was once our enemy; our lives had been about watching him. Instead, we have grown to love him which is supposed to be an impossibility as we were trained to be loveless. Now, we find that we love him more than ourselves. This fragile human who unknown to him, inspires us to live and breathe free and yet everywhere we see chains trying to control the world.
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