CLOSER TO HEAVEN

e didn't foll

m alive if he had followed me here. The man huffed a little. My mind was running over a

to his tone. Distate filled my immediately as I stepped back

I asked in a hushed whisper, my fingers grasping tig

ith his voice more. From our proximity now, I could smell his perfume. Though i could barely recognize it, his scent was t

was his daughter?", I asked, making sure not to be so

ld feel his breath on my nape, shivers arising on the skin. This had to be a joke, my father wasn't weak enough to be

y wan

e with his crimes or his victims. He was brutal, sick and ruthless like he had been waiting

ent? This man was goi

Some sort of joke that

ally a stranger to me," he laughed a little and shamefully admittin

rds. I hadn't said anything

lt immobilized by this man who's name i didn't know. I felt stuck in a trance and I hadn't ev

barely speaking

so close to mine, I felt his slight stubble rub against

had looked every where possible and had stopped looking years ago. "Nobody can give me the power of sight.

ith a sort of anger that left my baffled. Who was this man?

Abnus

ouched me. Abnus held my quivering jaw in place and placed a soft kiss on my cheek. I whimpered, fear consuming

h me when I leave this house," I felt him smile against my skin

t and hard and then I repeated the motion. "I...I can see your eyes," I half gasped an

dness. I could dream, I could visualize with my eyes closed but none of the things in real life could be percieved by me. I knew colours, I knew green, I just didn't know it could be so vivid and so drastically beautiful.

erience this again, there's a price you must pay Cecilia. A deal with the devil must be

te it with trees, nature, places even as others described them to me time and agai

Abnus, the object of my des