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The floor was there. The fatigue was there. The laments of the wheezing creature as well. The only thing missing thing was the pain all over the body after being crushed by a giant hand. Shinkuu realized that the hit never came, taking off her face from the dirt and rising her gaze to the violent creature. It was still there, close to her, the hand rose and ready to squash. But for some reason, it didn’t move anymore. “It’s like… is waiting something to happen… Uh?” Was then that she realized: the creature move its head continuously, searching for something that couldn’t see. “Because it cannot see! Of course, I’m really an idiot!” With its left side hidden under a black cape and the other side with a missing eye, it was obvious the creature was blind. Shinkuu felt dumb for realizing it that late. Trying to breathe in the less noisy way possible, the girl searched for a safe route to run. She noticed that, some meters behind the creature, there was a path, the only way out beside the path that took her there. Walking as silently as she could, Shinkuu went towards the exit, still too close to the giant. It would be enough to swing its arm to hit her. Staring at the giant while walking, the girl failed to notice some sticks in the ground. Stepping into one of those made enough noise to call the attention of the creature, who immediately turned towards Shinkuu. Like a baby moving with hands and feet, the creature tried to crush Shinkuu as she ran with all her strength. Once again, her feet were about to give up, when the girl heard a strange noise behind her. She turned without stopping and saw what caused the strange metallic noise she heard before. There was a chain that linked the big tree to the neck’s creature, a black chain. She didn’t notice it before, since she tried her best to avoid being squeezed. The creature struggled to get free from the tree, but couldn’t move any further, no farther than the length of the chain allowed it to move. Shinkuu felt a little safer, taking some time to catch her breath. She watched the creature trying to painfully reach her. Now, it was more the pity than the fear that she felt towards the creature. The compassion was even deeper when, the creature suddenly stopped, falling into its knees, crying. A horrible and painful cry rose from its tired chest, the crimson tears falling to the ground, painting the colorless landscape with the deep red blood, flooded from the void its missing eye left.

WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY?

Its cries where interrupted to let the question come out with a grotesque voice. “Why, indeed?”, asked herself Shinkuu looking at the grieved creature. It cried like an abandoned child, without a mother or a father to assure her, alone in a painful and harsh world. Thinking about the creature in this way, Shinkuu thought that most probably the little girl in white was the giant creature. Even so, she couldn’t find the reason she became such creature or why she attacked her. “I somehow can understand you… ”, she said aloud. Even if the creature kept crying, now that she was at a safe distance, Shinkuu gathered all her courage to ask to the creature itself.

- Why? Why are you crying? – she shouted to the creature.

- AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH

“It seems it won’t listen to me”, concluded Shinkuu. The creature didn’t noticed her anymore, sinking in its own pain, unable to stop the growing lake of bloody tears around it. When the blood was almost under the feet of Shinkuu, she thought it would be better to walk away. “There is nothing I can learn from it… or her… I can’t do something to help neither…” She walked back to the monotone and silent forest, leaving behind the grieved creature. Suddenly, she remembered having seen a black bird, but when she turned again to the tree it was before, it wasn’t there anymore. Thinking about what she just witnessed filled her with a deep sense of grief and sadness. She had to walk several meters until the cries were totally gone. Returning to being alone in the forest, Shinkuu suddenly remembered how she lost her right eye. “Those painful memories… they always return to me when I’m alone like this…”