Chapter Three: Nightmares
That night I had horrible dreams, horrible nightmares. Neferet was in my dreams. I saw her turning me into a monster, and me killing all the people in the world and drinking their blood. Even Kenny Chesney! I woke up sweating and crying. I tried to make sense of the awful dream, but dreams were sometimes for no reason and I particularly didn't want to think about it. I got up and decided to go for a walk. As I walked down the dark tunnels, I realized that I didn't know where the exit to this place was. Oh well. I though, I would just walk around the tunnels. While I was passing the black girl I had talked to earlier (I think her name is Kramisha), I felt like someone was watching me. I quickly turned around, but all I saw was darkness. I looked again. It was the darkest darkness I had ever seen. The darkness looked like it was moving. Moving darkness? I thought to myself. Who am I kidding? I had gone through a lot in the past day, and I didn't get a good sleep, so I was just a little paranoid. I decided to just try to go back to sleep. As I walked down the tunnel I thought about how this monster I had become had ruined my life. I hadn't even gotten to go to the Kenny Chesney concert! All the things I had planned to do…Wait. I didn't know that for sure! Maybe this creature I had become could still go out. I would ask Venus in the morning. All of a sudden something caught me off guard.
"You're life will neverrr be the sssame." I turned around and saw Elliot staring with his blood red eyes right at me.
"How do you know what I was thinking," I asked. This. Was. Creepy.
"Weee can all do it," he hissed. What?
"Know what I'm thinking?" I asked. He cackled.
"No. We can all read mindsss. And control them." Elliot grinned evily. I shivered.
"Well I can't." I said.
"Of courssse you can. All you have to do is look into someone's mind." I tried to stare into his mind. Suddenly, there were more sounds than just the snores of people sleeping and us talking. What an idiot. I heard a voice like an echo of Elliot's say. I scowled when I realized it was his thoughts. I hate it when people call me an idiot! I thought. I guess he heard my thoughts, because he laughed and said,
"Ssssee, you can read minds."
"What about the controlling part?"
"You jussst do the ssssame. Try controlling ssssomeone'ssss mind. But it doessssn't work on otherssss of our kind for ssssome reassson."
"What exactly do you call 'your kind'," I asked. I had just been calling them creatures, but I had been wondering about that.
"Nefereaturesss." He said. "It isss Neferet and creaturesss put together, sssince Neferet made usss and we are sssome sort of creaturesss." I shuddered and remembered how I had dreamt of Neferet giving me the medicine that was supposed to 'help with the pain' and how it had turned me into this, Nefereature. I hated Neferet. Now I knew two things: One: I was a Nefereature. Two: Neferet was something terrible.