It was in the locker, that I saw them.
In the darkness, I saw infinity. Giants beyond comparison, folding into themselves. Folding outwards. Bending space, time and everything. I had no words to describe them, beyond simply "big".
There was the sense of resoluteness. Of conversations.
Words transmitted beyond comprehension.
Of agreement and accord as they traveled in the darkness between stars.
I... we descended upon a blue green marble. Earth.
I flaked off, a splinter.
Descent.
Upon.
A single spot of brown, surrounded by blues and greens.
A building.
Darkness.
I gazed up upon infinity.
Upon something massive beyond thought that fell upon me.
I screamed.
I whimpered.
But there was no sound.
For there was no time.
A single sublime moment as I looked at infinity and infinity looked back at me.
And that moment ended, I forgot.
But in forgetting, I remembered.
And nothing had changed, I wept in the darkness of the locker. Closing my eyes against the faint light of the locker, I rested my head against the cold metal of the locker wall.
Breathing in the stench of the decayed blood and filth that I was surrounded by, I had to wonder just how much work those three had to have gone through to do... this.
I laughed, in my mind's eye, I could see them. I could see crimson orange mimicry of them as they sat in their seats. I could see the rest of the classes seated everywhere.
They surrounded me.
I breathed in and out.
I could see them moving about. I could see the crimson orange lights move around me. More and more.
A whispering shahhhhh like the roar of the sea filled my mind, words. Countless words murmuring out of sequence. Without consideration.
I whimpered and pushed, I had to escape, get away. And so, I pushed, I flexed a muscle I never knew I had.
The locker door behind me ceased to exist, and I stepped out of the metal cage much like a bird would an egg or a butterfly its cocoon.
I could sense them around me. It was clear that the mass of light were people. They were there. I could sense them, hear their thoughts.
It would have been easy.
Far too easy to simply reach out and speak to them. To tell them of how I had suffered. Of how each and every day in school was a torment thanks to them.
I didn't.
Instead, the muscles within my mind, within my soul... I flexed it once more and felt panels of light form behind me, casting a ruddy light upon the hallway.
Walking away from the prison that had once held me, I vowed that I would never return there. I would never return to the school.
With filth soaked into my clothes, and a stench of rot and decay hanging around me, I walked away from it.
And once outside, I spread my wings and flew.
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Engel
Worm / Neon Genesis Evengelion