OGRISM TAIL.

CHAPTER 14

CHAPTER 14

The sound of untold things smashing broke her minds, the sounds of glass shattering, the ferocity of eerie screams, and the fading wail of unknown people cries.Nina stared at the woman with blank cold eyes, so cold, and slowly numbing the pain, waiting for the signs of a new day to scatter the stars back to the planets from whence they came. She couldn’t believe how the unbelievable it is, so unclear to her, indeed she was brought up by unknown neighbour's who were later killed ruthlessly by king Imboko.

Though, as years went by before she got married to Abednego she knew vividly that one day she will meet her parents.

"Abednego will be mesmerized," she wondered. She felt something slide out her eye, pushing away crusted blood, as she thought, she would have liked to have gazed at the woman again. A clumsy breath escaped her lungs, bits of her foggy soul escaping along with it, and she couldn’t hold back a whimper as she inhaled painfully, tasting her own blood, and shivering uncontrollably. her teeth shattered, taking little sharp bites at her tongue, and a sound started from within her chest and travelled to her mouth, whistling out like an old funeral tune. She was getting tired, her eyelids drooping without her permission. She thought, she would have liked to have watched the stars outside with her.

“Nina?”

The vague circumstances were speaking to me.

It sounded like her. Excruciating pain exploded in her side and she gasped as her eyes popped open coming face to face with rough skin over a knee and sprinkles of dry blood over the floor. Her eyes closed once again.

“What, all those years."

It is her voice in her ear, and she said her name again, but only garbled wheezing came forth. It feels like she is aging in decades with every shaky breath she took, and a heaviness started to settle onto her chest, causing her to quiver in both anxiety and fear.

“Ugh…” she tried to speak but a groan was all she could manage. Everything seemed to hurt worse than before. What is this? Why can’t I stop crying? Can she see me crying? Matendechere, please, don't say so. It hurts so much.

“Don’t worry," the woman seemed to be reading her mind.

She felt the warmth of human skin on her face, giving her a brief reprieve from all of the hurt, but it was gone like dew in the sun. She didn’t want it to leave. She wishes she could open her eyes. She wished she hadn’t been so full of habit, searching into the woods before dawn, and just had stayed as she was warned, and with her. She wish…oh no. She just filled with wishes today. She tried to laugh but her chest caved in, and something wet and serious dribbled from her lips. A little sleep. She just need a little sleep to forget the pain for a moment. Just a little…

A quick frigid numbness enveloped her body, shaking her from a dreamers sleep. She timidly open her eyes only to encounter a blackness so unnatural that it gripped her in terror and she shut her eyes once again, this time not wanting them to open. She couldn’t move, her body was heavy like stone, and she shivered as she could feel the blackness wrapping around her. It was making small sound. What are those sounds?

It doesn’t sound like Abednego.

No.

That isn’t Abednego.

Oh gosh! that’s not Abednego God! What is that?

She could breathe easier now, but the heaviness was still there, and the pain. The pain wouldn’t leave. Those sounds. Oh God those sounds were getting closer. Abednego, Please Abednego, where are you?

"Nina!"

She stopped breathing and she could feel a force trying to pry her eyes open, but she didn’t want them to. Don’t. Stop, please. Please. The darkness in her eyes was safe, but if she opened them now, it wouldn’t leave. Those sounds. That voice that her name slithered out from, would be there, waiting for her in greedy glee.

"Nina my dear. Open your eyes. Let us see you.”

The force was becoming stronger; the chill invading her bones cracking them and spreading twinge of pain throughout her body, and her eyelids were being controlled by something that smelled of some rotten eggs that her mind couldn’t put a word too. Like something dead, and kicking.

"We want you to see us.”

Scream. She wanted to scream, but if she open her mouth it would get inside. It would crawl in like ants and stick to her bones, her heart, her veins, clogging her up with black spikes, their appendages prick her like needles as they rushed inside, and their mouths eating and starving, eating and starving, and never stopping.

Her eyelids slowly widened, a blizzard breeze crashing into them, blowing away all of the moisture and tears.

“Nina my dear,” her eyes opened wide,

“we can see you.”

“Nina!”

She screamed as her eyes opened and she struggled as hands, it’s hands pushed her down.

“Off! Off! Off!” her voice was croak, throat on fire and chest squeezing for air, and then in her line of sight, warm hands grabbed her face, and Matendechere's eyes came into view, she was still there looking into her eyes frantically.

Matendechere?

"Nina," she said, a relieved smile coming onto her worn face. She looked like she will vanish, vanish into the unknown world.

"So sad," she said but her voice sounded inhuman, and she looked around waiting to see it lurking in the crevices of the small room, but there was nothing but white dusty walls and a woman, a believed sorcerer, gazing down at her in relief.

“Mom?”

"Baby,” my mom stroked her arm that she realized was in a dilemma and she looked at Matendechere, her eyes bright and wet.

"I saw it.” she whispered and she furrowed her brows.

“What? Saw what Nina?" She was warned, never dare go outside, it is still there, it will eat you, don't go out into the woods.

She didn’t feel her stroke her face as his words processed in her head. The pain was there, hazy, but there, and so was the sense of reality; the smell of dead rotting creature, the sound of an erratic heart beating uncoordinated, the darkness, and their cold breeze. Tears escaped from her eyes and she gripped the woman, she got hold of her.

“I’m alive, hope you will spare me," she said and she nodded along with her, and she could feel reality taking a firm grip in her head.

"It cannot see you.”

She snapped her head to the side.

“But you can see it.”

The concoction was now working on her, no fear of going into the woods.

Abednego rolled through the forest before midnight and made his way to the outskirts. Abednego's assignment is to get food for the ogrism held in the cage before it is too late. The kind of food Abednego is supposed to take to the ogrism in the cage is a certain creature, though he will have to use the magic calabash given to him by Matendechere the sorcerer. It is found in the cave; thus its diet is human brain.

It is in form of a crawling man, it is a being, also it has some feminine appearance, who looks like a man with extremely long, big arms and big toes. It is believed it can smell a smell of human being from as far as ten kilometres away. It feeds on fresh human brain and drinks blood most of the time. That is a meal that Abednego is supposed to go and feed it to the ogrism.

The figure appears to have five to nine long, black tentacles that protrude from its back.