Chapter 35
Prompt: Strange
Title: Strange Feeling I
Word Count: 100
It was an unknown feeling to Alexander. He knew fear. He feared not having anything left to conquer if his father kept going like this. He also knew anger as his parents always put him in between their conflicts. He felt envy for those who had a confidant, as he had none for himself.
He knew affection. He cherished the most beautiful in perfection. And he knew longing. He looked with longing toward the new world he had never seen. Yet, he did not know desire. He did not know how love made him feel until he met with Hephaistion.
Title: Strange Feeling II
Word Count: 100
Hephaistion knew what bliss and zest were. He felt them against his skin whenever he ran through the summer meadow on horseback at full speed. He knew contentment, which he found everyday in his simple life. He also knew enthrallment. He could live in the world of myth.
Yet, he did not know what real joy was until he met with Alexander. The pride of being a part of invincible army of Alexander, the hope about the beginning of the new world, and the relief of not living a lonely life, but sharing it with his love completed his world.
Title: The Strangers in a Strange World
Word Count: 100
Alexander and Hephaistion knew sympathy when they swept through the gallant Sacred Band of Thebes to take them all down. They knew dismay when their friend Philotas decided to take a different path. They also felt deep remorse when Alexander took the life of Cleitus. They saw suffering during the march of Gedrosia.
Yet, they did not understand the very sadness until the time came for one to leave. Despair, grief, sorrow, misery and rejection hit them once and all to defeat them immortally. They were strangers in a strange world, a world of agony, loneliness, hopelessness and black emptiness.