Delirus. I’m delirious.
Leave me alone.
Stop prying at my thoughts
Leave me alone
No.
Taylor shook his head. Where was he? Where was Chelsea? Zac?
He was in a void. A black void.
He was battling.
What with? Himself?
A monster
It was stealing his mind
Pushing into his thoughts. Pushing him off.
No.
He couldn’t
But he did. Memories flooded into the walls of the void around him. Pictures. Films.
He was there. And Chelsea. He took her hand.
“ It will be ok.”
Zac.
Where are you?
No no no
Taylor grabbed his head, the unbearable ringing. He wouldn’t listen. He had hid his past so well.
Go away
Leave me alone
please
It all came rushing back hard. Taylor threw himself down, crying, sobbing. All the pain of being a Black, never having the perfect family all the black children longed for. Having almost all of his siblings get murdered. Living in the fear that he would be next. The evil cat powers. The third eye.
Taylor’s eyes flew open. Chelsea stared down at him.
He was in a forest.
“ Taylor!”
Chelsea’s voice sounded feeble.
Taylor knew what was to happen. He was going mad. He grabbed at her, trying to throw her down the cliff. But he slipped. He fell.
Taylor’s eyes flew open a second time. He was back in the dark tunnel on the stairs with Chelsea.
She was looking at him with alarmed eyes. Taylor looked at himself and saw why she was so afriad. His claws were out, as were his eyes as well as his third, his fangs, his ears, and he was crouched like a cat.
He shook himself until he was out of that form.
“ Chelsea.. something.. something’s in me.. it made me remember..”
Taylor whispered. “ I don’t like this place at all. I want to go back to before this happened.” Taylor waved his hand and a glass of water appeared before him. He took it, and drank it, then snapped his finger so that the empty glass evaporated.
“ Taylor, it’ll be ok..”
“ No it won’t.” Taylor muttered, images of the pain he had endured flashing through his mind. “ Not until they are dead.”
“ They?”
“ Our parents. They have to die.”
“ We need to find Zac. He could be in trouble.”
“ Zac..”