Dear Ikko, Day 34
For the past couple of days, I've been hearing strange things. When I lay down to sleep at night, I hear these…voices. Three male voices. They sound as if they're coming from all around me. One of the voices sounds very familiar. Like something I had heard in a dream. It's young and coarse…whispering to me like it's known me forever. He talks of things in a different language…things that frighten me; but at the same time, it calms me. This feeling is almost unexplainable.
I would sit up and continue to turn and twist around to catch a glimpse of my tormentors. I would keep ordering them to show their faces. But, when I try to talk to them, their voices trail off into the distance and disappear completely. Maybe the stress of traveling is making my mind play tricks on me. Maybe I'm just hallucinating all of this. Maybe I could go back to my charred village and this would all be over. I know I can't do that. But you don't know how badly I wish I could.
-Ippiki Ookami