6/7
Dear Diary,
You probably noticed that I wasn't writing for a while. I'm sorry.
I thought that if I kept it to myself, maybe it would just go away with time. But I can't keep it in like this anymore. It's just too scary. I haven't slept well since that night, and even though I patrol every night with Kyubey, it just isn't as exciting. I know I'll find another witch someday, and I'm afraid. I barely survived last time. What will happen if I meet one that's even stronger?
I'm going to write about the very first time I met a witch. It was horrible, but maybe if I write about it, I will be able to sleep easier. My parents already think I stay up too late at night and that I'm going to perform badly in school because of it. They have no idea.
It was at a house on a nearby street. Kyubey taught me how to find the entrances into the witch's barrier, so we both went in. It was dark and filled with tiny body parts. There were arms and legs, and they all moved like they were alive, except they couldn't possibly be because they were all just bits and pieces but somehow they still moved and came for me. Kyubey just told me they were the witch's familiars.
That's the thing about witches, I found out. The people who make movies really have no idea what a real witch is like. All of the witches in the movies like The Wizard of Oz look normal at least. They look like they could have been human, or even exactly like a normal human. And they go around with familiars like black cats that talk.
Real witches aren't like that at all. They don't even pretend to be like a human. The one I fought was just a bundle of body parts, like someone took a hundred dolls and put them all together in a big blob, except all of the parts were still moving and had other parts growing out of them. And it moved so fast, I could hardly avoid it before it was nearly on top of me with all its hands, trying to catch my hair and scratch me up. And all the other little parts could attack me, too, and there were just so many of them.
I ran for a long time. It was the worst moment in all my life. I could hear my heart pounding in my ears, like they talk about in the books sometimes. And no matter where I went, I couldn't find my way in the dark, because it was so horribly dark everywhere. And even though I kept running, everything kept following, and I could hear giggling all around me that never stopped. I still hear it now, when it's dark in my room and I'm trying to go to bed.
I finally killed it. I was never happier to kill something so wicked and disgusting. After that, everything went back to normal, and it was like nothing had ever happened. Like I had never walked into a dark dimension filled with horrors right out of something even worse than just a horror movie. There just isn't anything I can compare it to.
I hope Kyubey is right and I get used to this. Right now it just makes me feel sick with fear every time I wake up knowing I might have to fight another one.
I'm going to go to sleep now. I hope it works this time.
-Haley