There's a not so famous story , made by moi in this time span of 1 minute, and that too, I'm just going to think and write ahead a very crappy tale. Wanna listen? You probably do if you're gonna read ahead.
Once upon a time, there was a troubled girl who died a bit too early. Supposedly, or allegedly, I don't know, I'm only telling you what I've read, but apparently her mom killed her. Crazy, right? Then she meets someone called "Death" who showed some minor interest in her like everyone in her life has. Then, after making her go through what some two random, it or he, I'll go with he because it seems like a he to me, he just vanishes into thin air. And then she gets blown into the air or whatever. Do you know what happens next? She ends up somewhere, somewhere we don't know, we never might, who knows right?
But I'm sure you've heard this very beautiful quote or something, I don't know actually.
"Hell is a state of mind."
What is hell? Burning flames? Miserable next life? We'll only ever know when we die, but I'd say how things have proceeded and how they might proceed later, it might just be that quote. It's one of my favourite things to think about. Maybe you should too, or if you have then through it out to me, maybe I'll listen to you. But for now, I want to watch someone else suffer.
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A subtle wind flew through Yumi's hair, as her body lay in the sand, Sun shining brightly over her. Where did this Sun come from? Who knows. But it's rays were equally as hot as it is in life.
Her body just lay there, like a piece of flesh, waiting to be picked on some vultures or kites or.. hawks. It was all fine, until some real fine sand grains just blew into her nose and mouth, waking her up.. subtly. She coughed and exhaled hard, trying to look into the surroundings properly, which proved to be rather difficult with all the sand. She looked like a dusty, Pai mei faced girl, all that was missing was a long white beard that she would have to stroke.
Regardless, she got up and tried to look ahead. There was a town. A small sand town, as expected of any cliche desert town. She walked ahead, squinting her eyes, trying to look through all the dust.
She finally reached the entrance of the town, which seemed oddly, too crowded by people. There was a board, hanging over the gate of the town.
"Dead Man's Town"
The only confirmation that she might just be dead. She looked around. The town was ridiculously crowded with tons of people but outside the town, it was as empty as a vacuum medium. There were no signs of any sort of vehicles, traders, merchants but inside there were many.
She entered the town, which was flooded with average cliche sandy desert town things like, carpets, handicrafts, handlooms, clothings... Life seems so abnormally normal.
But it's when you really start to notice the abnormality of a seemingly normal place to see it for it's true self. Dead Man's Town, remember?
The faces of the people, they were like dried up skulls, covered with decaying and almost shedding, almost as though.. they were lepers. Their hands were in the same state of decay, and their clothing was basically linen cloth wrapped around their body. But that was barely the questionable part. The design on the handicrafts seemed intricate only from afar. When Yumi tried to get a closer look, the design became blurry and vanished into the air. In fact, the entire place seemed very vague.. as though it seems in a dream.
Gulp. This was stressful, to say the least. This was.. a nightmare.