Prompt: Vengeful
Character(s): Celeste Inpax
Originally Written: 6.25.2009

Monsters and ghosts were as real as any living, breathing thing. They blended in amongst people, cleverly disguising their vendettas as normal human affairs. When people were convinced that they knew the monsters – that was when they struck.

They killed the body and tortured the soul.

The ghosts became bitter and rancorous, vowing to bring about the monsters' demises. They would wait just beyond the realm of the living, watching until their enemies eventually succumbed to the humans' relentless thirst for justice.

And they would be haunted.

Even with all this said, Celeste does not consider herself vengeful.

(Much.)

She knows that she haunts his nightmares. She is his last regret, the last thing that ever silenced him. She simply cannot bring herself to feel (as if her feelings are real anyway) anything when she thinks of the pain that has been passed along between the four people involved in such heinous affairs.

Her last regret is Adrian; simple, unassuming Adrian had been tainted by misguided evil. Celeste had been her shield, the one to hold her hand whenthe icy reality of the world took its toll.

Had her soul been stronger, she could have stayed alive and they would be happy. So consumed with being abandoned by the two monsters was she that she hadn't seen the gift that had been given to her.

The deep ache that is embedded in her spirit will be with her for all of eternity.

That is why she feels no guilt when the monster she is haunting can't sleep (there is always something watching him).

Celeste is merely returning a favor.