"Amongst my many years of study, discovery, and research I have been to many foreign lands. From the forests of old Albion to the vast deserts of the sand lands of Arabia. I have heard of the many hardships man and woman endured in these years of strife, tales of old suffering retold again and again from elders to children, one generation to the next in a timeless cycle. Yet it was one unassuming story that I had only briefly heard which had disturbed me even after long since having heard it. To my saddened realization there were no records or scripts made to retell this tale; no written accounts. Forgotten and made to be discarded into the endless whispers of the air; that was the fate of this one tale. Yet in some mannerism that may resemble more of a demonic wanting, it beckons me to remember it; to carve each of its tarnished details back into my mind. How callous it must be that it forcefully must make my headache in its recollection, how disturbing that it takes form and tries to force me away from and into its words and into my cognition. No, it's actively trying to make me not forget. These strung together series of tragedies that mask itself as a tale of old suffering has a spirit that violently attacks all its listeners yet attaches itself like a parasite. Why does it not want me to forget? Have I truly become the last host of its devilish nature? Does God have a hand in ensuring that this one tale does not perish yet many others do? I have been a scholar of 70 years now, and no tale has made me this exhaustive in its recollection and recording than this one. Another tale I have to write down and record as a scholar. No. This will be the last tale that I will do as a scholar. It's all quite tiresome, it always has been, and I think this will take the last bit of energy I have left in me. My last tale as a scholar. The last I will ever do in my career and it has to be this one. Fitting. Almost fitting. Almost. " - Unnamed Scholar
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