Severing the tether

“Just concentrate on it. Relax your mind. Remember, the goal is to see it as an actual rope. Touch it in your mind, smell it. Feel the texture of it in your hand. Now, tell me what it feels like, what it smells like, how thick it is. Imagine this as real. Don’t let anything else enter your mind except the sound of my voice and the reality of the tether. Focus. Breathe. Relax. How clear is it? “

“It smells like wood shavings, it’s really thick, like the kind of rope that you would use in a tug of war. It’s a bright red, because it’s really strong. “

“Now, how will you sever it?”

“With my hands. I don’t have anything to cut it with, but I know that my hands will be enough.“

“Now sever it, but you have to concentrate and be sure that you do it completely. You have to believe and you have to actually see and feel it severed. How do you do it? Describe it to me in detail?”

“I wrap my hands around it. My hands are like red hot lava. I can see and feel the steam coming from my hands. Even though the rope is thick, I can see the smoke rising from the rope. Tendrils of it are starting to slowly burn. The red paint on it is gone where my hands are burning it, the fibres of the rope are really smoking now. It’s singeing and starting to get smaller. I squeeze it harder and small black specks of ash are starting to blow from it. It’s almost entirely gone.“

“Don’t lose your concentration, focus, until you can see that the rope is completely gone.”

“I’m doing it, it’s really thin now, most of it has been blown away in specks of ash. My hands are flaming hot. The heat that’s coming from them is even blue like a flame. The rope is completely incinerated. It’s gone.”

“How do you feel?”

“Fantastic. It was so easy. Why was it so easy?”

“It wasn’t, remember, we’ve been practicing for months. “

“Thank you so much. It worked right?”

“Of course it did. Don’t go looking for confirmation yourself, this is very important. When you do get your confirmation, please make your last payment. We’ll give you a month. Remember, if you don’t pay after a month, if we can teach you this imagine what we could do to you.“ She winks while she says this.

It actually worked. Pity there’s a one year waiting period to do it again. I’ll just have to wait it out to get the rest of them.

“Are you really going to see some crack pot who is going to teach you to kill someone with your mind?”

“Of course not. It’s not like I believe that the only thing keeping us all alive is some thin tether between life and death anyway. I’m taking your advice and seeking professional help. Someone to talk to. That’s what you wanted right?”

“Yes. Killing the people who took her isn’t going to bring her back, remember that.”

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You can’t go back

“Are you sure you want to go ahead and take it?”

“Yes I am.”

“The only information that you have is that the people who took it are still alive. It’s a new thing, they don’t even know what the side effects are. You don’t even know to what extent it’s been tested.”

“I know that the people who took it had less time than I had and that they’re still alive and show no symptoms at all. I have a year if I don’t take it. Even if something goes wrong and I end up with a side effect that they just don’t know about yet, it’s still better then dying. The fact that you and my parents have made peace with my dying doesn’t mean that I have to go gently into the night and just accept it. Don’t get me wrong, my sessions with Pastor Frank have helped me to walk through this with faith, but it’s not good enough for me. I can’t just accept that dying is the only option that I have. Look at them. They’re healthy.“

He didn’t tell her about what Chris and Beth said after they took it. He didn’t even know whether he believed them anyway. He didn’t think that it would be that bad. The thing with Sail is that it’s a once off treatment. You drink one glass of it and that’s it, you can’t go back.

He took it.

As soon as he swallowed the last drop, he saw them. For a long time he was ok with that. They were just there. They didn’t speak to him or do anything. It was the same with Chris and Beth.

The day that one of them touched him things changed. Why can they touch him? He understood that seeing them everywhere was the price that he had to pay to stay alive. But when they touched him it felt like his blood curdled. What if they start touching him all the time. Maybe he shouldn’t have taken the Sail.

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The Protected Ones

It started the day that the air was punctured.

No one really knows where the poison came from. We are the ones left. Our emotions stayed on.

At first they couldn’t determine what the results would cause. The economies of the world stabilized indefinitely and the money flowed like water, even in the most destitute countries. But that wasn’t enough to prevent the moral fiber from disintegrating.

Before all the children were eaten, they quarantined us and started calling us the protected ones. After Tommy tried to escape and a few of us saw what they did to him, no one ever tried to escape again.

The one theory was that we were busy dying out because we were below the new order. We were going extinct because emotions are considered weakness by everyone else.

The rest of them are so cold. In that cold lives the devil. What the others don’t realise even though we tried to tell them was that this is the end. The dark one switched their hearts off and now there’s only money. They don’t understand. The treaty is the only thing that’s keeping us alive. They’re trying to get it repealed because they believe that we don’t serve a purpose. I’m not scarred that they will succeed. I know that when they kill us, the angels will come for us and the devil will come and live here with them.

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