It seemed like it was still night, but I feel so refreshed 'shouldn't the sun be up by now?'
Roan was still asleep, Archer was gone and his sheets were scrambled, I took the time to tidy up the room and stepped out
I quietly went up the stairs, revealing an eerie and beautiful sight. Moonlight was pouring in from the open door, I caught a glimpse of my reflection of myself in the mirror and it was blurry, 'My sight's getting worse, hm'.
I peeked outside with an ounce of nervousness, but it was for naught, It was just Rhea and Archer talking.
'Wait, since when were they close enough to go meet up in the middle of the night?!'
I sat down behind the frame of the metallic, cold door and started eavesdropping on their conversation...
At first I could deduce that Archer and Rhea had common interests, although he seemed a little bit less talkative with her, was he scrambling for words?
Then they discussed literature and common hobbies, their love for nature, their interests, their interesting life, their past. Their past...
'Have I really done anything in these past 2 years? Is this the life I want to lead? I know im still young but what have I done so far?'
I blurred past a few sentences but their chat got my attention again.
Their words seemed so wrong but so right at the same time, and I started wondering
'Who could I talk to so freely?'
'I don't know myself, do I?'
They talked about so much: the stars, the fog, the sun and the moon, the sea, the presence, friends, sadly no family.
They were laughing, joy was emitting out of them, so why
'Why do I feel envious of strangers?'
I thought of drowning myself in sadness, or expressing my envy but in the end it's my fault isn't it?
'I have wasted all this time'
But their conversation didn't seem to stop, at some point I had enough and decided to quietly go back, sometimes it seemed like they were just repeating themselves...
Quiet sobs echoe'd throughout the hallway, the triplets were crying. They were afraid of the dark and their candle had died out.
I felt bad for them, I know children were naturally afraid of the dark but not to the extent of crying 'Did I know really?'
I grabbed some matches from a drawer in my cabin, lit a candle and knocked on their door.
"Hey it's me"
But there was no reaction...
I slowly opened the door and let the light pour in the room, revealing all 3 of them in a corner hiding under their blanket.
I couldn't quite tell but I saw them shivering.
"Hey, I brought you a candle"
One of their heads popped out, looked at me and got scared.
'Ouch'
I just put their candle inside the lantern and left the room with a sour taste in my mouth.
'Ah, what a shitty night'
I went back to my room and laid down on my bed, leaving myself only to my thoughts.
I was thinking of the prior conversation, my "heroic" act and stuff that didn't have much importance, although it seemed like there was something I was forgetting, something really important...
'Huh.'
'Where were the other 21 orphans?'
I leaped out of bed and slipped falling down on the floor, but Roan hadn't woken up yet.
I walked up to his bed and shook him, he remained unresponsive, so I began calling out to him.
"Roan? Wake up Roan, this is not funny dude!"
He didn't wake up...
"Something is really wrong with this, for how long was I asleep?"
I looked at the moon and judging by it's position only 1 hour had passed since I fell asleep but I swear atleast 2 had passed whileI was listening to Archer and Rhea, didn't it seem a bit repetitive though?
I rushed upstairs and approached Rhea and Archer, they were still casually talking.
I tried interrupting them but they kept ignoring me, they very totally unresponsive to my existence, I even physically moved them but they didnt give it no mind.
This felt wrong, very wrong, have I gone crazy? Is this a dream? No it is way too real for a dream.
"What can I do, this is very bad"
Kirill! He is the only one I hand't checked on, hopefully he is okay
I rushed back to the cabins and ran towards Kirill's room and I knocked on it
But it wasn't locked...
I opened the door and his bloodied body flopped down on me, warm blood still gushing out.
"Eugh..."
I fell backwards and felt sick to my stomach, his organs were spread across the room and he was cut in half tendril's similar to my knife sticking out of every piece of flesh, his viscera was nauseating and I wanted to run away, but I couldn't, So I crawled
My first instinct was to go to my room and I barged in like a bull, and locked the door behind me, I was beggining to tear up and Roan was still safe and sound, sleeping like nothing was going on.
I was going to try to wake him up no matter what so I tossed away his sheets and prepared to even give him a beating if I needed to, I was scared.
But I didn't need to, he had bled out a long time ago, his face did seem more pale than usual and the gaping hole in his chest cavity made it like some sort of grotesque sacrifice, he died dwelling on good dreams, the poor bastard... But then, Why am I still alive?
But the epiphany formed itself, it had attacked while I was eavesdropping
'Wait, the triplets, that's why they were scared?!'
I rushed towards their room, afraid to open the door but I still did, the horror that was present was an abomination, I couldn't even describe it, the poor kids, my mind was on the verge of breaking and I was already crying profusely but thing's still got worse...
The thing that had killed everyone split my leg off my knee, the pain was ardurous and I wanted to give up but I didn't want to either.
I crawled leaving trails of blood and tears on the floor and supported myself on the door to the staircase to the third floor but it budged and I rolled down the stairs and just as I thought
"Ever- Everyone really i- is D-"
21 bodies or so, they were impossible to count, were mangled all across the lower layer of the ship, was I really gonna die here?
In the middle of the room stood a heart with a watch fused into it, or to be more exact a giant heart fused into the room with a silver watch engraved into its center, it's blood vessels extending everywhere.
It was all blood, all I could see was viscera and blasphemy to rationality, I was about to truly break but it was to no avail because I was already dead
My head was split in half...
...
It seemed like it was still night, but I feel so refreshed 'shouldn't the sun be up by now?'
Roan was still asleep, Archer was gone and his sheets were scrambled, I took the time to tidy up the room and stepped out