Chapter 3: The boat

Benji walks by a body of water, he looks at himself. Himself. He sees his reflection, touching his face with the blood on his skin as he looks at his hand. He doesn’t grasp the concept of blood, death, or anything now. He doesn’t understand anything, and the fact he doesn’t know makes him frustrated. He carefully touches the water, not sure what it is. He touches it, it feels odd, he’s not used to the feeling, not used to anything

He hears chatter as he turns, it’s the queen, and a woman? And a boat. The queen sees him as she thanks him from afar as they get in the boat, he sees the boat go into the water, he watches them escape the kingdom. Benji can hear screams of terror, they see the fallen king, he doesn’t have much time left. Benji feels alert as he hears more and more screams, commotion.

Benji runs finding a second boat, maybe the queen was suppose to use two, but decided she didn’t need to. He hears the guards and folk scream soon finding looking at him from afar. He quickly gets on the boat as he is confused how it works, he finds a lever as it unlatches the mainsail, the wind blows as the boat starts to drift off. Benji shakes in the boat scared and confused.

Hours and hours pass as he’s shot wide awake, he sits in the boat. It’s dark , cold, and lonely nothing like his home. The stars shine in his eyes, the stars a vast variety of colors. The beauty of the sky is wonderful, he thinks. The beauty reminds him of his family, the beauty of his family. He feels water trickle down his cheek. He touches it , he feels it coming from his eyes as he can’t stop them from falling. He hears a voice, a laugh.

He sits up seeing a dark figure, covered in dark clothes, all around his body. His face covered, a long thick strip of gold around his head. Benji stares at the being, Benji can’t say anything since he only knows his tongue of language. The being sits at the edge of the boat opposite of Benji.

“I know you”

The being speaks in Benjis language, Benji is a bit taken aback , not expecting it to speak like that. “ Who are you? How did you ?-“ Benji gets cut off. The being waves its hand leaving it up in a right angle.

“I am destruction, sort of” it says placing its hand on its chest a small chuckle. Benji thinks about his planet being suddenly torn.

“I am the one who destroyed your planet” it says, Benjis fist curls as he hears his words, he doesn’t believe him. Doesn’t understand how he knows.