October 12th 1888
The crisp autumn air washes over me as thunder booms and lightning flashes. I walked the silver stained cobblestoned road of my beautiful borough that's when I felt something in my heart and I gripped my chest I was in intense pain I looked to a broken shard of glass and my eyes weren't their normal color they were now glowing violet-blue. I fell to the ground in shock. A woman ran over to me and asked if I was alright as she tried to help me up I turned and told her that I'm fine that's when I saw a pearl-like aura around her I could see these strange strings that were attached to her heart. "Are these what they call heart strings?" I muttered to myself.
"Pardon me sir, but would you like to come back to my house for some tea?" She asked with a sweet smile and an outstretched hand. (Strange her heart strings just moved and her aura changed from a pearl color to a bright yellow. What could she be feeling at this moment? Perhaps sorrow or worry?) I took the young ladies hand and thanked her for the kind offer but I rejected her. That's when I saw it.... The small twinge of a different color... it was a faint hint of black in her heart. (She's trying to manipulate me she has a false love about her. How despicable of a lowly wench to use her charms to deceive men.) I gritted my teeth and pulled my arm away from her false embrace. "Do not touch me! Wench!" I spat out in disgust.
"Sir, why are you being so cruel I only wanted to help you?" Her heart began to get overtaken by the black color. "You're lying! You've given false claims you're a manipulator I cannot trust you." "Please sir calm down may I help you?" She pinned me to a nearby wall and began to try to take advantage of me as she ripped my clothes off I heard the clink of my father's pocket watch hitting the cobblestone road I looked at it as the young lady took advantage of me.
I just stood there numb and as I watched the time tick away slowly on the pocket watch I could feel a sense of dread and emptiness around enter me it felt like an enternity before I knew it was over. "Thanks for the amazing time, love that one was free of charge by the way so don't worry about paying me." As she put my top hat back on my head she patted my chest and got up from straddling me and fixed herself. Her aura shifted again her heart turned purple her aura pink.
As I lied there and she walked away I still felt hollow. My mind still raced with millions of questions that's when something snapped in me. (No, never again will she use another innocent soul I cannot allow this false love to walk this earth and be content with her actions she must repent for her sins against the Emotional Sanctuary!) I clinched my fists. All of a sudden a red card appeared in my left hand and a hunting knife appeared in my right hand. I tossed the card and the woman stopped dead in her tracks as a strange barrier surrounded us. "What!? What is this? Who are you?" "I deemed you unworthy of Emotional Sanctuary now we've entered a world devoid of your temptations the only thing that rules here is my love. Be grateful to have been accepted into my loving embrace! I think I'll call this space "The Rippening" catchy don't you think?"
I charged at the False Love and began taking pieces of her off. I never felt so alive as I heard her scream as she begged me to stop. "Did you stop? When you thought I wanted you!? It doesn't feel so good to be on the other side feeling helpless! Like you can't breathe!" "Please, I'm begging you let me go I'll change my ways I just wanted to earn enough money to feed my daughter during these harsh times." Her heart strings pinged as she mentioned her daughter and her aura became a bright white. "You truly love your daughter huh?" "Yes." the woman choked out crying. "Tell me how old is your daughter?" "She's five." "Her name?" "Ney." "I will grant you this one kindness I will take Ney in as my own daughter." The woman cried and thanked me. "My name is..."
As her blood spurted onto the cobblestone road and she lay dead in a pool of her own blood as she did her last words played in my head as if I could see the last moments of love before her death: "Please, forgive me Ney my sweet child mommy's not coming home tonight as she promised. I will always love you and for you kind sir I do not expect you to forgive me; but the least I can do is give you my name which is Bella."
As I looked at the pocket watch and collapsed it as soon as I saw the minute hand strike midnight. I walked over to Bella's body and closed her eyes. "Now then, off to see Miss Ney." I tipped my hat and disappeared into the night as lightning flashed a bobby on patrol entered the alley and saw Bella's dead body.