To Prove Himself
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Feel it in my blood
I can feel it in my blood. My body is changing, my mind is becoming more attuned to the world Something is coming. Pa tells me to relax. I’m just becoming a man he says. Something every boy in the village goes through. But I know it’s not that. It’s something different. Something Primal. I need to get out I asked Pa again about my Ma. He wouldn’t properly answer. Gone he says, just gone. Fourteen years since she’s been gone. Only one year after I was born. I often wonder why. My head pounds in agony every day. I need to get out of here. This village is too small. Too dull. I need to get out. The other villagers start to mistrust me. They stare at me, sometimes in fear, sometimes in hate. My Pa won’t say why I need to get out. Tonight at dinner I demanded Pa tell me the truth. He looks at me with fear, my anger startling him. He finally tells me about Ma. He talks of a beautiful demon who once stalked this town. She would
