“the ones that… you know,” Parker asked, Yun nodded not even bringing himself to say the word dead, “it started at the Hunter´s office I heard the voice of the youngest Queena and after the fountain I… I thought what the hell so I wished to see my children, and their voices had been coming more and more often not only Queena but Zilas, Alina, and Rue” I saw a shimmering light at first I thought it was a thunder or a malfunction of a lamp but it was different almost warm when I opened my eyes I saw a tender memory, Yun was serving lunch to his children, Queena was the youngest eating carefully cut sandwiches made to resemble flowers, Alina the other girl was probably around my age eating curry very refinedly and with grace her brown hair glistening in the sunlight, the boys I didn’t know who was Rue and who was Zilas but they looked happy to be eating with everyone else, and Yun, he looks like the Yun I knew back at the Maw, Smiling kindly and laughing at whatever it was the boys said I wish he could be like this all the time.
“but then… I keep telling myself, they are gone… you know that don’t you?” the memory shattered and was replaced with a horrible memory, Yun was standing in the middle of the rain, he was bleeding from his head his eyes didn’t reflect light, and he was looking with tears at an object a big monolith made of twisted and jagged metal as big as a tiny building when another lightning came I was horrified the monolith was covered in blood like if something had been crushed by all of the metal I matched Yuns screaming memory when I noticed… when I saw the tiny toy necklace of Yunna the Brave Huntress amongst the metal, “But… we are here, right everyone?” a girl's voice said, “Mr. Yun I want to play again!” “Hey! Dumb professor, what are you waiting for huh? We are waiting!” “Mr. Yun, won't you come to the Well with us? Do… do you perhaps hate us that much?”
After I opened my eyes the room was in disarray most furniture was broken and Parker was soaked standing in a puddle of water, while Anre was struggling to stand on his feet, “what happened here?” I give Anre a hand “Yun was talking about the things that have been happening to him but out of nowhere he started to get agitated, he threw a jug of water on me making all of my paper into mush, and then he magnetized Anre´s hammer to the ground pinning him down and then left” “what happened to you, Lass?” Anre asked me when we managed to get his hammer off him “I think I linked with him and I saw some of his memories, I also heard the voices of his children” Parker threw the paper mush into the ground and picked his spears “he must be going to the Well to offer himself to whatever is calling him” we ran as fast as we could to get to the Well, to catch up to Yun and stop him from jumping in, whatever moonlight beast that is trying to take him won't have him without a fight.
This place looks eerie in the nightlight illuminated by only a few lamps, the moon hung over us as we ran to the center of the town, in a hurry trying to catch up to Yun, “something seems off, Anre keep your hammer on hand” Parker told us as we got closer to the Well more people started to come out of their homes, walked dizzily in the direction of the Well, “I´m not leaving you… I'm coming!” “you are here? I can see you at the Well, Really?” more and more murmurs like the one Yun said yesterday filled the streets, “Over there!” Anre yelled and pointed at someone, Yun was leading the people as he walked to the hole of the Well, and we all ran faster to catch up to him, he didn’t react, he just looked to the Well “Yun wake up!” Anre started to clap and snap his fingers in Yun's face but he continued walking, “Parker can you stop him?” “too many people, if they remember my gift it could be bad” “Okay then let me!” Anre held Yun and stopped him from reaching the Well, the crowd stopped and looked angrily at Anre.
“… I don’t like where this is going,” Anre said all of them pointed and shrieked as the ground shook for a moment from the Well a thing came out it was twisted like a snake coming out of a jar it had hair tangled into a mass of white it shimmered like if it was bioluminescent in its forehead was a luminous pearl-like the one you could observe from an anglerfish “what is that thing? I have not read about any moonlight beast with this description” “Don’t know don’t care All we have to do is kill it and I'm sure this will stop for everyone” Parker nodded “I'm sure now that using my paper is a must” he swiftly tied Yun to a nearby bench “the people are taking weapons we can't hurt them they are been controlled!” “Parker you put them out of commission I´ll handle the monster and Karolin you make sure Yun doesn’t go anywhere” I walked behind Yun as Anre and Parker prepared for a fight.
Parker worked the crowd creating ribbons of paper to bind them just like Yun, but there were too many opponents for him to handle alone he was struggling but if things continued like this he would be overwhelmed by the crowd, “Bring me my Yunni back you son of a-” Anre rushed the monster but he was rammed against a wall, he stood up spewed blood and saliva on the ground and charged again, what should I do? I can't fight like them, and my gift won't help them, I looked at Yun he was trying to bite his paper bindings but they were too low for him to reach, maybe… maybe I could awaken him so the guys would get the upper hand is a reach but is also the only thing I can do right now “Yun! YUN!” I called him he stopped his trashing around and twisted his torso to look at me “Karolin let me go! I just want to see my children please they are so close! Why would you deny me this!” I grabbed him by his shoulders and yelled into his face “Yun they are not here! what you see or hear is an illusion!” “Don’t you think I know that?!?” I let go of him “I know that is not real but I rather this lie than face reality”
“Yun…” he shook his head “I… I don’t know what to do… I can't remember what happened that day, all that comes to my head when I try to remember is the sight of that accursed monolith made with blood and iron” he lifted his gaze his eyes were full of tears trickling down onto his paper shackles “the thought that I… that I… that I´m to blame for their deaths eats me alive each and every night” with his tears the paper weakened and he managed to brake free form the binds but instead of running he fall to his knees still sobbing and holding his head, would any of my words reach him? The truth is I don’t know much about him or his children, how can I help when I myself can't even begin to understand his pain, the pain of losing your children, the pain of not knowing if he was to blame for their doom, the Well isn’t far, Parker and Anre are going to be overpowered if I don’t act “I won't move until I hear what Karolin wants” “Leave it to me young lady I will keep you safe” there's another way to awaken Yun, I dashed to the Well and stepped on the rim it´s so dark I can't see the bottom.
“Karolin! What the hell are you doing get the hell away from there!” Parker yelled but I shook my head “I have a plan, watch out!” a man hit Parker on the head with a cooking pan, he was seething with rage for the attack, parker folded paper into his fan and gave the man a good smack down, “YUN!” I yield to him, Yun lifted his head once more to look at me “Karo…lin?” I started to breathe heavily, I´m seventy-five percent sure of this plan either this work or, I look at the bottom again, or I end up in another hole “You have to choose you can live and be my guardian and keep me safe like you said” I move my foot near the edge a few more inches and I´ll fall “or you can play pretend until you die!” “Karo-” I didn’t let him finish I fell back first into the Well I closed my eyes and waited for my head to be greeted by the stone at the bottom but instead I felt someone holding my ankle.
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