looking for a job wa and endless task. especially since nobody took notice of me. maybe elizabeth would be a better candidate for a job? she had more experience. even so, it was equally fruitless.
"somebody stole my car and i know who, i even got his address" she said to me, giving me a piece of paper.
"i know where this place is" i assured and we embarked ourselves in a new and thoughtless adventure.
obviously though, we didn't find the perpetrator. we found his father his father, a tall and robust man, who politely told us to wait on the lobby of his office and he would see if he could find his son so he could take responsibility for his acts. of course, he couldn't seem to find him and we waited until elizabeth began to complain loudly about it.
so she was called into the office of the car thief's father. i waited a little more on the lobby till elizabeth got out, various files on her arms as she excitedly told me the boss had just hired her with innumerable benefits, like a gradually raises according with how well she could do her job.
i felt betrayed. and angry. and hurt, because, weren't we supposed to get a job together?and now she came to boast to me, her words taunting and superior and mocking and "i should go back. they´re gonna give an office!"
i was in shock. the only thing i kept thinking of was if i should wait for her to take me back home (she was the one with a car after all). maybe i should take the bus. why am i still here? i felt sick. even so, i still had to be a masochist and go tell her i was going home on my own, see you and "could you give me some tissues?"
i wanted to cry. maybe i needed to cry, to shout at her if only to make her embarrassed in front of her new co-workers. i was short of breath and the more i tried to repress my feeling, the more my corporal temperature increased. i felt dizzy and i kept imagining how my death would be slow and painful and coughing blood while i crashed into the floor, weak and defeated.
"you're so sensitive" she came back with the tissues.
"i just don't feel good, ok? i'm having an attack, i think i'm allergic to something here" i bit back, taking the tissues while she went her merry way into her office and now i really wanted to die. or at least black out. i couldn't stand on my feet, i needed to sit down. i needed an anchor and the wall looked as good a choice as any. to my misfortune, the wall i leaned onto was the car thief's father office. from where he came out. and saw me. and invited me in.
by this time, i was out of myself. and if elizabeth didn't care about who stole her car, i should care less. i got a seat while the boss called elizabeth, who, once again, took her sweet time to come out and meet me. and boy was she changed.
her previously long, messy and curly dyed red locks where now short, sraight and
blond, her skeletal frame adorned with translucent skin. she had dark and big bags under her empty and almost soulless eyes.
"there's someone here who read me my birth chart. i told him about you and he's willing to read you yours, but you need to be careful" was the only thing she said before this short and dark-skinned man came out of nowhere. his eyes were dark and guarded, they spoke of knowledge and his smirk was cheerfully faked.
"so this is joana" he said, staring hard at me "oooooooooooh, another one, i'd certainly eat you"
"no thanks" i said and followed him.
we reached this little room whitout door where only a single couch could be fitted, it was so little. there were some kids crowding it, because there were some items placed on a platter fixed over the arms of the couch, but they made way for me so i could take a look at the jewellery on the makeshift table.
"choose one, even if it's not your size" he said and i took a careful look. there wer bracellets and rings, earrings and hoops, necklaces and tiaras, all of diferent symbols and jewls.
"are they real?" i mumbled in awe, beginning to sort them out so i could look one by one. the more i dislodged them from the pile, the bigger the room became, until it was a big and dark room whose only light came from the couch in itself, of all places. the bigger the room became, the more kids here were, sitting on tables swinging their little legs, others coming out of big and ornate vases or even from the same shadows, all porting some of the jewelery and bringing them closer so i could take a look at them, only to be rejected again.
"how does it feel to die?" the one on the table swinging her little feet asked.
"like falling asleep" i replied and everyone in the room stopped to look at me.
"like falling asleep?" another wondered.
i nodded. "yeah, like, after a battle, when you're too weak and too tired and you just want to fall asleep forever. that's how it feels" i continued, moving towards the sample board that had appeared over the table the kid was seated on. on a baby blue felt were more symbols and jewels, brighter and more colorful. "can i choose from these here?"
"yes, choose one even if it's not your size. itll fit you" he repeated.
"here" anoher kid came close to me carrying a little flask with a potion in it in
turqoise color. "i found the potion you used to cure the angels before"
i was confused. "but... i thought i was a hunter. t-that i killed angels"
i took a look to the guy who was supposed to read me the birth chart. "yes" he answered "but you also used to cure them, much before you began killing them. it's difficult for people to remember past lives"
a sardonic smile pulled at my mouth. "well, it's not as if i remember mine. i mean, i can't even get in"
my tone was acerbic, bitter like i felt at that moment and my pain seemed to make him happy. i made a fist, for the first time noticing the bracelet in my hand. "but, you know?" i said "after the battle, when you're really tired and ony want to sleep, you dream too. you dream of the people waiting on the other side, of their smiles and warm"
tears blur my vision and i fall to my knees, some of the kids hurrying to my side to hug me. the jewels in the room begin lightening up, but i don't notice. my eyes are closed. "yes" he muttered with sadistic pleasure "continue. the eight are waking up"
but i don't care, because "they are there" i sobbed "but why? WHY. CAN. THEY.
NOT. BE.
HERE?!" i shouted.
that's when the light exploded...
... i was the light.
ok. you know, i've been wondering why lately i've dreaming of natural and no-natural disasters bringing the end of the world as we know it. my dreams are becoming more and more erratic every night that passes.