Benjamin knew that what was standing in front of him was not real, just an hallucination of his damaged mind, a creation of those memories from his childhood, the traumas where everything was burnt down… she was nothing but a hallucination, but it blocked him down.
The face of her, that burned, unrecognizable face, that fragile little body of hers just… standing there with the flesh melted down, standing there and looking at him without blinking, without saying anything… just staring into the core of him.
The core…. the memory of the flames, every scream, every loss, every burning thing he had seen, it all came back at once, in the form of her. Benjamin's demon is his childhood love, the demon that has followed him since then and the worst of it is that she held him in place.
Her empty, accusing eyes told him that he could not escape, even if she was just a shadow in his mind, she carried the weight of everything he had lost.
