Day 9
“I stare so long that the image gets fuzzy, like snow on a TV screen when the cable goes down...only scarlet.
A clear droplet lands in the blood with a tiny splash, a droplet fallen like a star from above. A tear from my eye.
This one should have been easier than the first two. He was a wicked Poison Oak, deserving no mercy. Not only that, but his face was that of the least trustworthy Willow—Hiss the turncoat.
So why is this killing affecting me?
I back into a corner of the room... and slide down to my haunches. Another tear burns its way out of my eye and runs over my hand as I chew my nails.
Is it because of my target's condition? Because I found him in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down?
Not the likeliest evil terrorist master of disguise, was he? Couldn't have done much damage to America from that chair, could he? Is that what's bothering me?MoreLess
A clear droplet lands in the blood with a tiny splash, a droplet fallen like a star from above. A tear from my eye.
This one should have been easier than the first two. He was a wicked Poison Oak, deserving no mercy. Not only that, but his face was that of the least trustworthy Willow—Hiss the turncoat.
So why is this killing affecting me?
I back into a corner of the room... and slide down to my haunches. Another tear burns its way out of my eye and runs over my hand as I chew my nails.
Is it because of my target's condition? Because I found him in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the waist down?
Not the likeliest evil terrorist master of disguise, was he? Couldn't have done much damage to America from that chair, could he? Is that what's bothering me?MoreLess
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