Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Perdy



PERDY

by

Anthonystjoseph

     Suddenly he woke up.  The feeling he felt was as if he had woke up from a deep sleep that was more like a coma than a sleep.  He didn’t know where he was or how he had gotten there.  He looked around in a daze at his surroundings.  It seemed to be some sort of huge cabin that was made from wooden planks that were all green; a light green with a tinge of moldiness to them.  He was on the second floor of this cabin and didn’t know how he had gotten there, where he had been, or where he was from.  He tried to shake off his drowsiness, of which, all would not shake; he started to slowly explore the cabin.  He was the only one there.  He went downstairs and it was more of the same light green hew covering everything and a feeling of complete emptiness.  The entire world other than the cabin and its immediate surroundings seemed to vanish or even not be there at all.  Everything seemed haunted.  Haunted by a presence that lurked in the very air itself.

     He went outside and quickly realized he was almost unable to move.  His steps were very slow in coming and his breath was hard to achieve.  He felt like trying to move his body and take a step was almost impossible and that he was being spiritually held back by an unknown force. Then very dark shadowy clouds appeared in the distance and slowly and menacingly they creeped towards him as he could feel the ominous forewarning of being overcome and consumed by the clouds.  The dark clouds were on land and as tall as adult humans and just glided over the ground instead of walking like people do.  He turned to run back towards the cabin to escape the threatening clouds and could barely move as the dark clouds approached him with some sort of anger.  An anger clearly directed towards him.  He tried his best to run but was completely unable to do so.  He continued to try and get back to the cabin as the clouds continued to approach and he could swear he heard a slight and guttural growl coming from the dark clouds as they continued to get closer as he tried to make it to the cabin and what he thought was safety.

     He struggled against the unknown force doing its best to detain him and restrict his movements and he eventually made it to the cabin door and could barely muster the strength to open the door.  As he opened the door he couldn’t get through the doorway because the door itself opened outward and blocked his way as he was still on the wrong side of the door.  He saw a dark cloud out of the corner of his eye only five feet away.  He used all of his strength to squirm around the opened door as even the door itself seemed to want to block his way.  He did his best to get on the other side of the door as he saw the cloud was now only three feet away.  Finally, he managed to get on the other side of the door and he threw his body into the cabin by simply falling into it with all his might and giving up and then he shut the door and locked it as the cloud angrily growled outside of the door.  What was happening to him?  Where was he?  Why was this nightmare continuing and still most importantly?  Who was he?  And again, where was he?

     His strength slowly returned as he looked around the bottom floor of the cabin.  He went back upstairs and noticed a plaque on the wall.  He went to the plaque and took it down and couldn’t read the word that was written on it.  Why couldn’t he read the word?  It was written in English but for the life of him, he had forgotten how to read in this place.  In terror and disgust he threw the plaque on the ground and then looked around again at the light green cabin.  He walked back downstairs and opened the door to the outside once again.  He stepped through the doorway and once again was barely able to move.  And there they were again!  The dark clouds growled in the distance and once again approached him with clearly sinister intentions.  He slowly and heavily made his way back into the cabin.

     He laid on the cot on the second floor of the cabin and thought about his predicament.  Suddenly and in a rush, soldiers came upstairs out of nowhere.  They approached him and said they had a proposition.  They found a rare green silk on his cabins property and if he gave them the right to procure it they would give him all of the green emeralds that his heart could desire and also told him that the green silk would protect him from the clouds and their power.  He thought about it for a second and said he wanted to check out the protection of the green silk for himself.

     He put on a green silk outfit they offered and walked outside of the cabin.  Sure enough, the dark clouds could not harm him and they didn’t even encumber his movement anymore when he wore the green silk in their presence.  It sounded like a perfect deal.  And the green emeralds the soldiers had shown him were huge and beautiful and he knew they were worth a fortune.  As he got closer to a cloud while wearing the green silk the cloud disappeared and there was a human inside of the cloud.  A beautiful human man just laid there on the ground who seemed to be in pain and full of sadness.  The clouds were actually humans like himself.  What was going on?

     He returned to the cabin walking freely and unencumbered in the presence of the clouds due to the green silk and approached the soldiers.  The soldiers asked him quite bluntly, “Well, do we have a deal?”  He thought about the green silk and the dark clouds that were actually beautiful angry and sad humans and decided to ask the soldier in charge a question.  He asked the soldier, “Where does the green silk come from?”  The soldier reluctantly replied, “It comes from the clouds. It’s their skin.”  He didn’t quite understand.  The soldier continued, “Well, it’s the skin from their faces, it’s the best skin to make the green silk from.  All the rest of their skin isn’t as soft and considered useless.”

     He thought for only second, he thought about the fact that actual humans would be killed and sacrificed just for this beautiful green silk.  As his usual greed and unconcern for others took over, he agreed to the deal.  The soldiers could take all of the green silk from the human clouds they wanted as long as he himself got his silk and his emeralds.  Then, all of a sudden, just as he had agreed to the deal, something inside his soul screamed.  A familiar scream from his inner core.  A silent scream.  He had done it again!

     The soldiers vanished.  He collapsed and fell to the ground next to the previously tossed aside plaque from the wall and realized that he had once again sacrificed other humans for his own greed.  He had once again failed.  The soldiers had disappeared and he was left there on the ground in the green cabin with his clear and obvious failure as a decent soul.  He slowly picked up the plaque which lay next to him and his ability to read had returned.  He read the word out loud and it said, ‘Perdition’.

By

Anthonystjoseph

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