Doctor of the Underworld

than a coal aflame revealed

ferent from fantasy, for before me was the god sp

side as I stood in a daze, long enough for a look of nonchalance

guidly leans back by his bed and under those amber eyes, even the most calmest of souls would falter, with its

l child?" A deep voice

ng in my heart, a sweet o

moment started of with an argument, an arg

y an awful dramatic music

A woman in her early forties scoffs her grey eyes glaring behind large r

ds to look after me." Maintaining a straig

e, exasperated and I knew then that I was in for a

TURED your leg." She sighs looking away as if feeling sad for the poor boy and not her innocent daughter.

You're a ten year-old soul inhibiting a fifteen year-old body with

her who chose to remain in neutral territory hides behind

when I fell into a ditch, or how my cousin deserved to get his nose broken for smaking down my ice-cream. And how I am actually SEVENTEEN, s

mine, I give into emotions. "Ma, you know that...that I miss Nana.

't want to leave it empty so you have to give it away. But please let me s

plea

er and after a series of emotional backmails and desperated yelling she final

hand I had hiked through the mountain trials to stand before t

ow only little remains with the people of the town nearby deadset on the rumours being true, of

s and usually brought me along to this place she used to

here, but its rich untented gardens with rare specie

I was conscious I knew the medicinal properties of each plant there is, from roses, to moss, to palm t

ke and nicknames, ohh I had many. My most favourite being witch doctor though I never

interest but was never let to pluck for Nana said it would bloom after seven years and no

othes uncomfortably clinging to skin. I wanted to find it, figure out what was so spec

nd of flowing water and curious of its source I enter the ruins I

ith only few retaining traces of its former artistic beauty. I stepped carefully over pieces of rubble on the mo

most two meters in radius and something about it makes me cautiou

s that strangely wasn't stagnant and unable to see past its surface to know its de

et and with this brief warning, the floor crumbles and

istic as I plunge into ice cold waters that mome

t as my face surfaces a strange force more powerful than gravity pulls at m

to break through to the surface and a single breath is

bbles and the light shining down from the entrance, my onl