Chapter 263: Cursed Child (1/2)
There he saw a girl sat in the corner of the room, on a simple white bed with absolutely nothing around her, a small open window directly to her left, the blinds undone which made the rays of sunshine land directly on her pale, blank face, the sound of chirping birds from the outside garden.
That girl was non-other than Abby… Or was it even Abby?
Her usually neatly done hair, clean clothes, and well-mannered attitude was nowhere to be seen. Things that she learned while living with her family to avoid beatings and had almost become second nature to her.
The girl in front of him bore none of those qualities…
Her crimson hair was completely dishevelled, her face was messy with a dead look in her now gray eyes that were completely unlike the burning eyes of passion he always saw, an odd look on her face smiling, a small bird on her right finger standing completely still, one that seemed to have flown in from the open window…
Moby was simply standing there at the entrance of the room, completely speechless at the sight ahead of him, before he noticed the girl raise her head and direct her gaze straight at him with a wide smile that gave him a bad feeling in his heart...
”Oh! Hello Mr! Do you want to play with me? I promise it will be fun! But I have to warn you… Everything I play with eventually dies… See?”
She lifted her finger where the bird laid still before it suddenly disappeared… Sucked into either her inventory or storage ring that she wore on her left finger, Moby knowing exactly what that meant…
”A-Abby?! Is that you? Do you remember who I am? Moby Kane?”
”Mhm! Yes! It's me Abby… And you are… Ummm… Who are you? I feel like I remember you… But not really… I have a feeling that you're a nice guy… So, I actually urge you not to play with me… Nothing good ever comes from playing with me or trusting me… But at least Alex will always be with me like he promised! Right Alex?”
She took a small pause before nodding back to herself.
”Hehe, of course, you are!”
Moby could still not believe his eyes… He and Alex had managed to save her life… But was she even truly saved?
”Abby! Snap out of it! This isn't you! What happened!? What made you come to this!?”
Moby asked that question with clear worry on his face, yet he already knew the true answer before she even spoke it, he just wanted to see how she would respond...
Her mind had completely broken, everything was simply too much for her to handle…
Everything from being brainwashed, forced to almost kill her best friend, cursed and attack the only person that ever showed her affection, led to the death of her lover, and finally, her entire family dying right in front of her eyes, which was her final motivation and shred of will to live left in her heart completely snuffed away…
It left her with absolutely nothing, spiralling into a void of pure negativity, some of which being completely unjust, which broke her mind to the point of devolving back into a little child with a vague sense of her previous memories, wanting to experience a childhood she never had in a safe bubble where she would never be hurt or hurt anyone else ever again…
The word ”Cursed Child” had been so ingrained into her very being that she now truly thought of herself as one.
”Whatever do you mean? Isn't it obvious? I'm just locking myself up where everyone will be safe… So… Can you please leave? I changed my mind about playing with you! I don't want you here anymore… You're a good boy with a bright life ahead of you! So Shooo!”
The smile she gave him was bright, almost like the sun, a corrupted sun that gave off polluted light. It was quite the odd sight seeing her smile in such a way, with gray eyes, black spots under them, her hair messy and her entire body shaking.
Slowly, Moby began walking in her direction.
”Abby… Please… Listen to me… I'm just trying to hel—”
However, as he approached, the fear and worry in Abby's eyes also increased, before she jumped out of bed and ran into the small garden outside of her room in a panic, tears running down her face.
”I TOLD YOU TO STAY AWAY FROM ME! I DON'T WANT TO HURT YOU!”
Moby felt his heart slowly crack… He seemed to be getting nowhere with her… like talking to a brick wall, which must have been what had also happened with Jayden…
He looked out from the window at the garden that she ran off too barefoot, hiding carefully behind a tree.
So, he decided to follow her and play her game. If she didn't want to talk to him normally, maybe she would change her mind once she understood that he wouldn't get hurt by simply being around her.
Yet, when he tried to demon flash towards her and surprise her, he was simply unable to, like his body just didn't allow it which he inwardly attributed to his recovering body.
Moby took a deep breath, calming his nerves and focusing on one thing…
He looked around him in every corner of the area, trying to see if there were any cameras before he tried what he was about to do.
”Abby! I order you to come to me right now!”
With an authoritative voice, he called out, trying to see if his control over her had been reestablished.
And, to his surprise, as if she was walking like a robot, she waddled from behind the tree to his direction, a painful look in her gray, tear-filled eyes…