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Chapter 4 - Torpor In Rot

Hey, what is that? that smell is repulsing me, and I'm so ready to go, far away from here, it's like I'm hugging a dead man who's swimming in his own waste, like a cattle dung tarnished bane that my unmissing sense can't contain, i heard the dirge of my decease even tho i touched the future and  unironically i witnessed my demise far away from happening, it smells like death just died after it smelled itself and was recreated in a decayed inhumane body which is the embodiment of the word unbearable, and its terrible smell keeps amplifying every time my brain gives me an order to complain about it, and my brain became that unsatisfied monarch with the hobby of "all time ordering" the second this smell reached my nose hairs, it's like two demons are loudly arguing with an open smelly mouth, and I'm ready to make a truce between them for eternity.

From disabled to enfeebled, to this malodorous scent that it feels like its burning my flesh, not just making me want to make a deal with the apex warlock to swap my vision sense disability with my smell sense, I looked around me and I saw that I'm sinking in an endless lava, the only thing I can feel is how heavy I am to reach the bottom which I think its unreachable, and somehow I wasn't able to feel my body, I tried to move and it was just my head spinning in a void gravitationally pulled from every side, a bit harder from the bottom, making it hard to just fall, until I looked down towards my chest and it was what's left from my chest bones burning like a fuse heading towards my head.

A huge metallic rusty hook came from the top and it got inside my mouth and pulled me all the way out, the only remaining thing from my body was my head, I didn't panic this time, I was expecting such thing to happen, I knew that it's going to keep getting weirder, I looked down..... I knew it hasn't been a while being able to use my eyes but..... his face was the most creepy rancid execrable looking thing my brain will be ever able to absorb, and I saw only the half of it.

"Young man the old! you probably regret wishing to be able to use these eyeballs, haha... Welcome to my territory, not the best looking indeed but... The best place of tangible resources, and self realization courses, so you can please your tired brain, since its the only thing remaining, hahahaha" The black root said with an unclear "bubbly" voice.

" I would like to please my nose first, but what is it now... what is next? I'm just confused, why you are making half of your head inside this smelly liquid its like you using it as a.... pillow?... why your right side of your head is just inside it and the bottom of  your body is just big roots that are heading towards the bottom, why you were supposed to exist in this form to creep me out? and this face.... half face...." I said, while I'm struggling to talk fully confused and trying to hide the fear within me.

"Ah yes.... yes! questions, the best things I love to hear from people actually, it makes me feel wiser than I actually am, cause I own the answers that you don't have and not like I know everything you will ask just cause I was supposed to know it, and I still yet know everything you will ask, sorry hah.... you know being stuck here for eternity makes you question a lot of things, but listen... the right is for the right, and that's where my half face is, it also helps me seeing people drowning to be recreated again, to let them know what they are supposed to do...and be, an anachronism they will emerge, now... close your eyes, you will sleep for a long time but you will still be conscious, after a hundred years, tell me what do you see".

I saw him switching his half face to put the other half in whatever he was sinking in, from the right to the left, and the more his head moves the more my vision gets blurred until I slept, nothing..... I hear or see, not even my friend, it didn't take a while until I heard a soft beautiful voice singing of a little girl:" darkness..... daaarkness..... a poignant reminder of the passing time..... blood in the number face of dime..... evil travelling in the dire slime..... your soul binds with your darker mime... , I was choking and you danced... sublime!..... candy liar candy liar candy liar sour lime...  darkness..... daaarkness, his hairs are long and harmless..... I sew.... I sew... your  father is alive but heartless".

I kept hearing this, again and again, but I didn't feel annoyed or anything, I was like alright.... keep going, I felt like it's guiding me, i felt relaxed about my future, it didn't end here, I started to see something, something that keeps expanding, until it became a clear image surrounding me, I heard the black root's voice:" you woke up? welcome back! what are you seeing?" is what he said, I answered;" are these the....mountains .... colossal rocks...."

"Yes indeed they are what else do you see?" he said interrupting me

" I see.... ah I ... I'm not sure.... I see... a beast?... a tiny one it looks .....headless?.... uh for some reasons..."

"Hmm its getting clearer... what do you see up there?"

"Uh oh yes... It's a big scintillating circle....."

"Stop..." black root said interrupting me again

"Why ..... What's wrong?"

"Hear me, hear me okay?.... if anything changes in whatever you are looking at you have to tell me okay?.... listen carefully.... hound of the moon, your fulgent face is spreading soon, I convoke so you invoke, I provoke so you evoke, you relinquish?... I revoke, surrender, and I'll own your past grim stroke"

A head started to be created in from the neck of the hound, it was hairy and round, it looked slightly bigger than it should be.... like it doesn't suit the body, I mean I've never saw a "hound" in the past of  "back then" but it just felt weird, then surprisingly the hair started to fall, excessively, except for the top, I said:" that is not an animal head that is a human head"

"Oh sweet lord of oblivion, you are doomed" he said

The face on the hound's body was fully formed, the hound moved its head and looked at me, it started barking with.... my voice, I realized that I'm looking at my face for the first time, if it was me I looked scary, toothless, wrinkles all over my face, bald spots, I was really not the best looking out there, his eyes rolled up and started running towards me, furiously, he jumped on my face and started eating it, I was screaming in agony, a picture flashed in my brain and it was for a little girl choking on the clotted black blood inside the piano, and she was the reason behind it, the player.

"You are living a lie, a big lie, did you hear anything while sleeping?" the black root asked

I lied to him, I said I did not, so he told me: young man the old, I'll make you a body, and then you will be ready to go, as I said.... you are living a lie, and one day u will tell your story..... to everyone, you will tell them that you met the father, you will them that you were being beaten by others, having a surgery? haha maybe so reasonable, you will lie and lie to people just to simplify and polish your life as much as you can even though simplicity was never a friend of yours, to make it look like you are always been a victim, by my roots I create, with malice you will retaliate.

His roots came from deep down, with sharp edges he stung the bottom of my head, and my body started to be created from bones to flesh to skin, he used his roots to close my eyes while I already saw him heading towards me, he started recreating my face with his hands like he is playing with mud, I asked him saying:" why you don't want me to see the other half, why you are helping me, why my dear friend isn't?" he answered with a laugh:" cause its the half face of the man you looking for, why I'm helping you....? I'm supposed to do that that's all, and your friend? hahaha.... here's an advice, don't listen to him if you were able to, cause from the depths of admiration, you will rise with the wings of malevolence, I'm gonna put something inside you but don't worry, I'll sew a worm inside your intestines", "a WHAT?" I interrupted him loudly.

"hahaha don't worry, it will help you, I will also give you a centipede in a box, use it whenever you want, let it be around your head to cover your eyes, and when it glows up, it will make the worm inside you see what you are supposed to see, cause your ability to see has came to an end, and it will tell you about it, believe this creature or not.... its up to you, now go".

"Wait I still have many questi....." a huge root penetrated my chest while was still talking, made me go up high then get back down and sink where he was, I came back to where I was, I heard a voice inside me, it sounded.... devilish.... it said:" let's fix your mistakes, let us do it with haste".

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