The Immortal: Silent Killer
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Mark is alone now, or that's what she wanted. However, life is a funny thing, it seldom grants people wishes without a price. Sometimes she can't tell what's reality and what's an illusion, the voice of her brother resounded from the urn she carried, chanting the words traitor, traitor.
At first they were whispers, things she could ignore, things she could disregard. She was so close to ridding herself of them, into the open flame that night, but as fate would have it, life decided to be unkind and take away her wish in a blaze of fire and shrapnel. Throwing her into a place where those whispers became shouts and the only remedy was the feeling of a blade in her hands.
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The Immortal - Stephen Grisham
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© 2012 by Stephen Grisham
ISBN 9781456612481
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Prologue
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Prologue
I imagine myself standing in the field dreaming of a song in the meadows. I imagine myself humming a song my grandmother used to hum to me so that I would sleep.
Oh my god is he ok? Someone get a paramedic!
At this field I would ask myself why nature seemed so serene and pleasant, welcoming and beautiful when the world was such a mess. Such a broken tear streaked, strife filled mess?
Hurry get him onto the stretcher! Time is running out!
Ethereal being that seemingly exists, why did you show me this field, this beautiful field that lay before me.
Stay with me! Stay with me! Don’t die!
When all I want to do is burn it down?
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Tonight was a night where all the townspeople would emerge from their homes, in their hands a relic of importance cradled to their bosoms. A few would shed early tears and others would be stone faced, walking towards the center of the late night cobblestone ridden streets.
Young ones would shiver and old folk would tremble, breaths released into a cold circle. Sometimes, I fancied a portion of their souls escaping the confines of their earthly binds.
Holding onto my relic and glancing down mournfully at the urn that contained my brother’s ashes I myself would shed a few tears letting them fall upon the clay lid and watching my tears soak into dull copper colored container.
Oh brother I do not want to part with you. You are too precious to me, but it is unfortunate, that you perished prior to your burial, near the Festival of Gaia.
I said feeling my lips curve into a shallow smile.
Soon my feet joined the townsfolk in a solemn march towards the center of town mirroring the many who would whisper their final parting words to their relics of endearment.
Oh brother, brother, why did you leave me so?
Maybe it was my imagination, or the borderline of madness due to the loss of my own kin that enabled me to hear his voice from the urn, haunting and distant. Traitor. Traitor.
Simply smiling while my feet marched I lovingly whispered back. It was not I who broke our promise brother.
Alas, the voice of my deceased kin would not listen and continued in its chant.
Traitor. Traitor.
The rest of the trip was left in silence with only the sounds of my own feet and the breaths of the many that surrounded me.
Filthy.
My eyes would glance back and forth at my fellow townsfolk, flickering moments of disgust passing by in my mind.
Filthy Earthly Beings.
Soon we were at the center, and it began, an item tossed into the flames and the flames engulfing the artifact, one by one as each threw their object in, threw it into oblivion.
Then my turn and I would look at the urn that contained my brother’s ashes, the whispers returning. Traitor, Traitor.
Stopping and watching the orange-red and yellow glows from the growing fire reflect itself off of the clay container.
Brother, my brother I love you,
I started the townsfolk uncomfortable and some urging me to hurry. But between the two of us, I’m not the traitorous wretch that you’re accusing me of.
A whistle in the air, high-pitched and deafening, it was only for a split second, turning my head to the source and the world was soon engulfed in fire.
Traitor.
The sound I would hear, reverberating in my mind echoing as my eyes closed, feeling the heat slowly bubble under my skin. All I could hear is screaming. My own screaming.
The world is on fire Mark! The world is on fire!
His voice full of glee and awe came forth from the darkness. "Don’t you see how beautiful it is? The flames they’re embracing me