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Chapter 6
I was unsure of what Erik was going to do, but his eyes – his whole stature – told me that I should be very afraid. And I was. I did not know what else to do, so I just slowly turned around and then ran out of the room. Once I was about ten feet away from his room, I had nowhere else to go. I shifted my weight a couple of times, before deciding to run into the pool of water that lied before me. Being as short as I was, I could not wade myself very far into the water.
It was not so much as being afraid of the way his face looked, but more towards what he was going to do to me. He had told me to never go into that room, and I did.
All of a sudden, I heard footsteps walking across the stone floor behind me. Slowly turning around, I looked upon my pursuer, who had put back on his white mask. For a moment, we both just stood there. Erik was looking straight at me, I could feel it. But I did not want to look at him, frightened of what I would find again in his eyes.
Then I heard him walk into the water, and towards me. My whole body stiffened as I saw his legs get closer to my own. Finally, about a foot away from me, he stopped.
He lowered his face to mine and said, "Look at me," quietly at first, but then he screamed it at me. "LOOK AT ME!" I raised my head, but kept my eyes closed.
"What? Can you not look at the monster before you? Can you not bear to look at my repulsive face?"
I said nothing.
"Why… Why did you come into my room when I specifically told you not to?"
"I don't know," I whispered.
"You don't know?" he paused. "YOU DON'T KNOW! How can you not know? You must've obviously gone in there thinking something! Probably thinking 'Oh let's go into his room and try to get a glimpse of the monster that mommy told me all about. Let's get a good look at his deranged face!"
He pulled off his mask and flew it onto the ground as I flinched at his sudden action. But when I saw his mask floating in the water, I managed to pull myself together and look at him. I recognized all I saw, but this time, there was more fear, than anger,in his eyes�I think. After a few seconds, I couldn't take it any longer, and I had to look away.
"See? You cannot even look at me for longer than a few seconds. Only one person ever could, and that was your mother. But she soon betrayed any trust that I had in her."
I desperately wanted him to go on, hoping that he would tell me why he wanted my family dead, but he did not.
He lowered his voice to a whisper and told me very coldly, "Just go to your room. I need time to think about what to do with you." I did not move. "I said GO!" He pointed his finger at my room.
I walked over to my room and went inside; glad that Erik did not kill me, though it would have been so easy for him to do. I lied in my bed for what seemed like hours. In my room there wasn't much to do. I had the bed, a nightstand, and a little closet. There were no toys, or anything to play with. Not thinking that this was a good time to bring up the no toy issue, I did not mention anything to Erik.
A few more hourly minutes passed by, and I was still bored. After lying there for about ten more minutes, Erik entered. When he came in, he had cleaned up his looked, and now had the same appearance as he had at all the other times.
"I have thought it over," Erik said quietly. "And you are still to stay with me. Even though you have now seen my loathsome face, this may actually help you to understand why I am doing this-"
I interrupted him. "Does this mean that you are to explain why you want my mother and father dead?"
"No, that will be a story for when you are older. There is much that your parents did not tell you about their past, and a lot that you will never know."
"What? You know my parents?" I pondered him. He only nodded.
"Now," he said. "For coming into my room your punishment will be –"
"You can't punish me!"
"As long as you live here with me, you shall live by my rules!"
"But—"
"No buts. As I was saying, you are to stay in your room until supper, and then after you eat, you are to return here."
"But there is nothing to do in here! There are no toys or—"
"That is the point. You need discipline." And with that he left me, all alone in this horrible room with absolutely nothing to do.
Just when I thought that I would die of boredom, something shiny on the wall caught my eye. Across from where I was sitting, there was something that looked like a little opening. I walked over to the gold knob, and touched it. Instantly, the wall opened up and before me lay a passageway, like the one that I had found behind the mirror. At first I was hesitant on whether or not I should go down it, since Erik told me to stay in my room, but after some thought of what other things I could do, I stepped easily into the hall.
After taking only a few steps, the ground beneath my feet felt awfully strange. In an instant, the ground opened up and I fell down and down not knowing where I would end up.