Chapter 29
Hennessy and Nix
“So, what happens now?” I ask Nix. I mean I have just had a whole heap of information thrown at me I need to know what happens from here.
“What happens now?” Nix repeats as she looks at me like I am about to have a front row two ice-cream seat to the crazy farm.
“Mm yeah, I mean you just word vomited all over me. So, what happens now?” I ask again, though it is a little bit slower. Maybe Nix is having a mental break as her right eye is twitching.
I watch in silence as her eye continues to twitch and her face looks like she was just made to pick up shit with no shovel.
“You ok Nix?” I ask as I get up and move a little closer to her.
“Me… me, am I ok?” Nix splutters
“Mm, yeah you. You look like you are about to have a stroke or something” I say getting my face really close to hers.
Can supers die from shock? I mean that is what Nix looks like, like someone has just shocked the shit out of her.
“If you need a minute to come to terms with things that is fine, I can wait. I mean its not like I can run away” I say laughing at my poor attempt at a joke.
“Are you not scared? Are you not worried?” Nix asks.
“Of course I am worried. I mean life is hard right. It literally kills you” I mutter while I continue to look at her.
“You’re kidding, right? Life is hard because it literally kills you? When did you turn into such a smartass” Nix snaps a me with a half-smile on her face.” Nix snaps at me.
“You do know that when people ask stupid questions, that it’s my legal obligation to give a sarcastic answer it actually written somewhere” I mutter to Nix while looking around the dark space like I could magically make that saying appear.
“Sarcasm is for people that aren’t witty enough” Nix responds while having a smug look on her face.
“It ok if you don’t like what I say. Not everyone has good taste” I reply with a straight face.
“Well, I can honestly say that nobody has ever gone broke underestimating me” Nix laughs while replying to me.
We both start laughing uncontrollably. While I am gasping for breath Nix is also laying on her side trying to suck in some much-needed air.
“Nix” I say sobering up enough to stop laughing. “Please go talk to the Sib’s, once you have that conversation we can meet back here. Its not like I can go anywhere anyway. Once everything has been sorted with the Sib’s, I will give you my answer and we will go from there” I say giving Nix a strained smile.
“Oh, ok. I thought that there may be more questions or some questions as all. You sure there is nothing that you want to ask me? Anything?” Nix asks. I can see from her face that she is starting to panic slightly but as I look into her eyes, I can see that she is also resigned to the fact that I am most likely going to say no and everything will end.
“I think that you need to go have the talk and go from there” I say again. “We will talk soon Nix”.
Nix nods her head and closes her eyes. “Ok” and with that single word she is gone and I am left all alone in the dark. I hate the dark. As I feel the panic start to come a single fire ball pops up and starts to dance around, I giggle as I watch the fire ball bounce around. It is almost like the fire ball is a living breathing entity. I watch as it moves and dances around popping up in different places. It isn’t long before the fireball starts dancing further away from me.
Getting up I follow the fireball as we play through the dark space the Nix calls home.
“I wonder why there are no pictures here” I mutter to myself. As if the fireball can hear me, it dances further away until it comes to a stop. Walking closer I see that the fire ball is at a wall and there like living memories is Nix and what I can only assume is one of her others.
“Show me” I say fully focused on the images that are playing out in front of me. The fireball hisses and then bounces around. “Show me it all” I say taking a seat and staring at the wall.
It was like watching a film. I watched the story of Nix and her other the poor boy was subjected to much bullying, from his family, from other kids and parents it never ended. He didn’t want to survive after he lost his first life. He begged for the torment to end and Nix cried along with him hoping with each and every incident that they wouldn’t be reborn. He wouldn’t have to worry about life at all any more. But no, they were reborn again and again until finally after many years of living what could only be described as a nightmare in hell they ceased to exist. Nix cried when she finally said goodbye and the boy cried saying that he was sorry that he was never good enough to hold such a creature as beautiful as Nix.
The second and third were not much better they both lived the life of luxury but when they reached their time to deal with the prophecy, and Nix they both rejected her. Nix was upset and started to doubt her worth but of course the goddess said that you can’t have a ‘omelette without breaking a few eggs’ I don’t know if the goddess knew that Nix wanted to break her and see how she liked it but of course that didn’t happen.
The Four man made me physically sick. He was mean and even the word doesn’t describe what he did. He hurt his family in the more barbaric ways and tortured animals and children for fun and laughed. Each time he was caught and sentenced Nix prayed that they wouldn’t be reborn. She went to such an extent that she would frequently put herself into hibernation and pretend she could feel the call until she was forced to lose a feather. Nix blames herself for some of the worst atrocities that ever existed within the super world. Nix actually did a happy dance on the day that they lost their final feather but a part of her never felt clean after living through what she lived through.
Number five the anti-super was a funny but scared girl that didn’t like the supers because she didn’t like how the lorded over the humans. I discovered that it was partly due to number four that supers were made to leave the human realm and live in the super realm where we couldn’t cause too much disturbance with the humans. Number five thought that she was a human and once the sentence came down and that they had to live in the super realm she was miserable so it really wasn’t a surprise though Nix was shocked when on what should have been the day to make herself known she wound up waking up to the goddess.
I watched as for months she begged not to come back.
“I don’t want to come back again goddess please” Nix begged.
“Child without you my whole entire plan fails and life becomes more tragic” the goddess says with a soothing voice.
“I don’t care” Nix shouts.
Nix gulps as the goddess hisses and shouts back at her.
“You will be reborn; I do not care that you want to wallow in misery I need you and therefore you will do what you are told child” The goddess shouts.
With that Nix was sent again to number six.