Jackle's Rant By: americananime A/N: I wrote this while school was still in, and in math class no less, but Kewie thinks it's good and I should type it up. The Problem: It's written very lightly in light pencil, and in m y chicken scratch. All these name plays on words (Jackle/Jackal, NiGHTS/Nights, Reala/Real, Wizeman/ Wise Man) are about to kill my poor spellchecker. All it ever did was try to help. :P

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Reala. I hate Reala. I don't see why everyone just thinks he's so scary when all he is is an overgrown clown with a blood lust. And then there's NiGHTS. Oh, how idiotically Wizeman played that card! I swear. And why couldn't Wizeman just make him a mindless idiot with no free-will?! I guess it's more fun to break someone with a spirit ... or a body. Heehee. No skin off my back - literally. I walk down halls searching for something; what, I don't know. Anything was better than being locked in that room all the time. Wizeman and Reala were in good moods tonight and they let me out to roam a few hours ago. Slap. I pause as I pass a door. The door that leaded into Reala's room. A shiver runs down my back. I am not afraid of Reala. I am afraid of who he is with. "You worthless, careless ." Wizeman bellows. I hear the sound of a whip. What is going on in there? I lean my floppies against Reala's door, only wanting to here what was within out of some instinctive curiosity. The whip hisses again. Reala makes no noise; he can take it. NiGHTS had always tried to make no sound. But I heard, late in the day, when everyone else was sleeping, when he made screams of constant pain. Sounds care easily here, especially when all is quiet and no one else is listening. I always listen. Noise calms me. Silence makes me afraid. I'm always in that silent room . and then sounds come to me and I listen to everything. Past Wizeman's bellowing, labored breathing comes from Reala. And something else . whimpering? Reala is whimpering? This terrifies me, more than the silence, so I run and lock my door. But the whimpering won't go away. And that's when I realize that it's me who's whimpering.

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A/N: Pitiful, wasn't it? I told you. It's not even a page long. -.- Anyway:

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