Stay By Your Side

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Warning: Might contain small violence

Hortus, a Big City with a giant tree grow in the middle of it. Reaching the end of time, the resident grows lesser and lesser till no one exists there anymore. No one …. But him

The Big City has an urban legend, it is said it's taboo for all the residents to walk out of their home or even look outside at night. Because at night is the time when Messenger of Death do his job. Legend said if they dare to break the taboo, he will claim their life and store it inside the great tree, trapping their soul inside it. The Messenger job is to make sure that dead souls could be successfully claimed before Death come. So he will not have mercy for anyone who sees him during his work time, though The Messenger has a rule not to show himself during daytime.

Dell, the only resident in Hortus, right now he is the only one who lives in that city. During his life, he is the person who feels fun to disobey the rules. He is the only who walk in the city during night time, because … He is the Messenger of Death.

Dell Honne, the Messenger of Death, his Pair of Black Wing is his proof as a Demon. Before all the resident are dead, his job is the only thing he could rely at that time. But right now … nothing left … no job, no souls. Only boredom and loneliness left inside him. At least, he didn't need to hide till night to come out anymore. Since no one will saw him. But in exchange he needs to stay with loneliness.

"So boring" said Dell as he wandering around the Big City. It's as silent as graveyard. He took out cigarette and stuck it between his lips before he light it with small flame come out from his hand. He inhales the smoke and let it out before grumbling again. "267 years 9 month 3 weeks and 3 days left till I could leave here. Damn it! At least give me a job!"

For Dell, Hortus has become a big amusement park dedicated for him. Yes, a very big park, but with no one gonna play with him. His job is simply waiting till the next job is prepared.

Sighing with boredom as his companion, Dell decides to shut himself inside a house. Even though the weather is good, he decides to stay inside. Arriving at his house, he quickly went inside and proceeds to his bedroom. Throwing himself to his bed, he just wants to end the day quickly.

"Wonder if I got enough sloth to keep sleeping"

As he closes his eyes, he keeps reviewing his previous life, tracing back his lifetime to when everything still exist, when he still got job to do, when boredom didn't stalk him.

"Heh, guess its give no difference at all. Only one companion increased for me" he chuckled, realizing the fact that loneliness is his new companion. Slowly, he feels weak and within several seconds, he enters his hibernation mode. Hoping that at least one or two days will be skipped by sleeping.

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In blink of eye, the day turns to night. He found himself wake up by the moonlight reaching to his eyes. He sits up and looks at the night view through the window in his room. Leaving his bed he, walks to window and touch the surface of the glass with his fingers, look at the view outside.

Unlike day, at night he feels he could get less lonely. Maybe because he is used to living at night, besides there is several things he find it interesting at night.

Dell flaps his wings, flying around Hortus from high place. The first thing he does is Balloon message. Once he saw a bunch of kids releasing several balloons to the air, the balloon is tied with paper which contains their wish written on it. At first he finds it funny and foolish, but when he saw those kids smiling when they released it. He gets curious, wondering what make it sounds fun for them.

He land towards a destroyed store which sell balloons before. Taking out paper from his pocket, he writes on it. But different from those kids, he won't write his wish, what he writes is something else.

I am Dell, let's befriends

Childish indeed, one might call it's some kind of method for him, a method to proof that there exist another being in this big City other than him. After done he pick up one of the balloon lying on the floor, then pull out one thread from his shirt, tying the paper with the balloon.

Dell carries the balloon and flies high to the dark sky. "Make sure you deliver my message" he said as he release the balloon and let it wander through the silent sky of the night.

Staring at balloon which moves slowly, a silent sad expression described across his face. He flaps his wings once again and proceeds to his next destination.

While moving to his next destination, he takes this chance to once again check on the City. It's worse than when he look at it from the ground. From above the city is completely like a Ghost Town. No living beings remain, only debris and crumbled buildings. Seeing this kind of view, he just stays silent and flies towards his destination.

He flies towards the Great Giant Tree in the middle of the city. The Great Giant Tree is a place where he stores the souls of those who saw him. Though Death already claims the prizes and brought them back to land of dead. If he didn't claim it, he might still get some mate to talk with. Even though those souls hold hatred for him, he still finds it fun to insult them from outside. Seeing their pisses off expression somehow relax him. But those things already become footprints behind him, they are no longer there.

He land on the ground near the great tree. Around the great tree many white flowers grow. They are all flowers he plant to entertain those souls trapped inside the tree. The Flowers is unique, it glow weakly. As if it's showing a sign that they are happy that he comes.

"I got new companion for you guys", he planted another seed at empty soil. Carefully dig a small hole with his sharp claws and plant it. Once he is done, he flies towards The Tree Branch, sitting there. Once again he watches the view of the destroyed city from there. While staring at it, he traces back memories he had before in his previous days.

Somehow he feels a bit regret for insulting the souls he keep inside the great tree. If thing is different, he might be able to talk more with them. Not about insulting, but some stuff which he never try before. Being Messenger of Death is a tough job, not allowed to go outside during daytime and need to collect specified souls within time period. And the most stressing part is … when some human break the taboo. Dell needs to work twice as hard when someone break the rules. Storing the souls inside the great tree cost a lot of energy and time for him, to be worse Death will always scold him whenever someone break the taboo. It's not like he is the one who guide them to break the rule, it's just that they are driven with their own curiosity.

Thinking back about those memories, He sighed. The day he spent with his job is more tiring but also more fun. It's better to have job than got nothing to do in your life, at least it give some meaning to your life. Just like a bottle of water is better filled rather than empty.

As he keep spacing out thinking about past, one petal from the flower he planted fly and accidently touched his cheek. He picks up the petal and smiled at it. "Thank you for cheering me up, it's alright. I am not sad". He let go the petal to soar in the midst of night. He watches the petal keep floating and wandering in the sky, it's swaying like waving its hand to him. It's floated further and further from him, till it's completely disappeared. As the petal disappears from his sight, he took out a gun from his pocket and aim at his head.

"Hope this works" he said as he pulls the trigger. The blood spurts from his head, painting the branch red, one drop of his blood fall and land on the flower petal in the ground.