' ... Mortem, don't forget to get water from the waterwell today ! ' Mom said. I didn't reply, I took the bucket and went outside. My name, as you already heard, is Mortem. I live here with my mother in Safilore, I grew up with her alone.
My mother always told me I was really special since I aged alot faster then most children of my age, I'm actually just two years old but I look like a fifteen year old kid. My mother said it was in our genes, I still don't know why or how I age so quickly but that will stay a secret for sure. My body type was rather normal , just the average for a boy of fifteen. I had black hair with some with hairs in it and my left eye was red and the right one blue. My facial structure was abnormal, especially since my mother doesn't have any of these things in common with me. Anyhow, as I was walking in the sand with my bare feet I slowly but surely reached the waterwell. I suddenly dropped the bucket and I froze to the ground, my red eye suddenly started to hurt like something I've had never experienced before. The pain was unbearable, I had these kind of things before but not this bad. My chest started to glow and I pulled out my shirt to quickly see what was glowing. Some weird signs were covering up on my whole body, turning red and blue then red again and blue. It went on and on, I fell on my knees and grabbed to my stomach since that started to hurt too. I yelled for help, but ofcourse there was no one near enough since the well was deep in the desert. Then the glow changed to a white and then black light and went back into my body. The signs disappeared and so did the pain in my red eye and body. I suddenly felt something in my neck, something warm and soft, something hairy. I quickly snatched towards my neck and head with my hand, it was my hair. It had grown until my neck, I quickly ran towards the well. Darn it ! Not again ! ... I aged, I totally changed again, and again I looked older. My body structure became larger too. I just now turned sixteen, I wonder when this will finally stop. I quickly grabbed the bucket to fill it with clean fresh water. I dropped the bucket on the ground and started to wash my face with the water from the well and drank something from it. From who did I have these facial traits? Is my mother really my mother? What is my purpose on this world for crying out loud? I picked the bucket up again and quickly went home. I bashed inside and threw the bucket on the table. 'I want some answers, and I want them right now and don't lie to me , please. ' I begged. "Mom" was cleaning some vases when she suddenly dropped the cleaner. We stood there for a long time and then she finally turned around. 'I'm not really your mother, and your father still exists. But the truth is really dangerous, and I do encourage you to not beg me for the truth.' She said. I looked to the small cactus pot on the table. I looked up again and said 'If you won't tell me, I will find the truth.' Her eyes turned yellow and she changed into a monstrosity. A Gubh-Liunk. They were from old tales and used for little children to make them afraid so they would listen, but in reality they were fearful old feminine undead warriors of Safilore, who are said to be extinct. I closely looked as she changed form and two pale swords grew out of her arms. 'Time to play.' the Gubh-Liunk hissed out from her mouth. She ran at crazed speed towards me, I turned around and ran away as fast as I could. I ran on the sand and I ran and I ran until I reached The Temple of Safi. I knocked on the door as I heard the Gubh-Liunk approaching, suddenly a sense said I had to duck, and so I did. The Gubh-Liunk sliced with her two swordarms into the wooden door and she tried to get loose as she got stuck. I ran away, as fast as I could. What in Aggrash's name is going on ? I reached my house again and searched for a weapon. Weirdly enough no one was outside. It looked like a ghost village. I found a small kitchen knife in the meantime. It was nicely polished so it could cut easily through things, for example flesh. I could hear her walking and I quickly hid in the shadows. Why do they want me, who are my parents? Who am I !? . I held my breath as the Gubh-Liunk approached slowly, her face was blue and her lips , eyes and nose oversized. From her legs to feet were pretty small, to tiptoe very silently around. Her upper body was small too, but her arms ... Were massive with big blades inserted in them. Her eyes lit up in the darkness. She came closer and whispered ' Darling, I won't hurt you mentally. Show yourself, please? Do it for your mother ! ' Now was my chance ! She exposed her back to me , I quickly ran towards her and I grabbed her neck with one arm and I inserted the kitchen knife in the back of her body and ripped it totally upwards until the neck . There I pulled it out, turned the woman around and stabbed both her eyes. She fell to the ground crying and screaming in a language I couldn't understand, she sputtered for a while and then her body became lifeless and I could see a blue thing leaving her spirit. . I went over to her body to inspect it , as I did I breathed it in and I felt totally rejuvenated again, no pain and I felt stronger as ever ... How the ... I turned back again and thinking of what I did I felt tears coming up in my eyes, what happened ... I kept walking from the back of the house , to the front of the house. Now what !? What should I do now? I heard screams at the door of my house, a group of people came in running and yelling ' Murderer ! Killing his elder ! ' Elder? What were they ... I looked at the monster again, it looked like my "mother" again, but with a ripped up back and empty holes where her eyes used to be. I had the knife in my hand with blood dripping from it. This ... Is ... Impossible ... The girl who I had a crush on , Ingia , looked at me with pain . The people already knew I was a weird case especially because of my fast aging. My "mom" always told them that was because I was somekind of sorcerer and they believed that. Ingia kept looking at me , she ran away screaming for help. Two village herders, Garga and Herrud, grabbed me and threw me on the ground. Garga kicked on my wrist so I would let loose of the knife. I screamed from pain and they picked me up. 'How could you do this to your own mother, why Mortem, why!?' Garga said. I looked towards the monstrosity that was once my "mom" she looked pretty human except for the tremendous wounds I created in her body. 'I... I simply don't know anymore ... I'm so confused ... ' I replied. 'You're going to answer alot of questions from us and if you wont, you will be treated as you treated your mother. ' The Chief said from the town, he was accompanied by four royal guards with large javelins and a small shield with chainmail armour. 'We'll take it over from here Garga, leave or we are to enforce you to leave.' Chief Begrah said. Garga stepped away with his foot from my wrist and he left together with Herrud. Two guards picked me up and held my body against a table. 'You two, take the woman away. Make sure she has a beautiful spot in our graveyard, she was a great woman.' The Chief said towards the rest of the guards. The nodded and went off with "mom". I was still held by the other two guards and the Chief came near me. He grabbed a chair and started to sit on it. 'So, now you're going to listen to me ... And you will answer , if you like it or not ... '
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