- SORT THROUGH FAULTS AND FEARS, THE HAPPIER YEARS -
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He wondered if it would have gone differently, had his protector been awake. He’d began appearing in his vision when he was child in the form of abstract imaginary friends. He’d never understood why they were so different to that of the ones belonging to other kids his age; some girls had princesses and mermaids they could have tea parties with, some boys had strong men and people considered their heroes, while putting his own ideas to paper left him with nothing more than something adults would throw away and warn others of, just to check to see if it was normal.
And then the mistakes began to pile up. A bad relationship with a man way older than him and all of a sudden, the creature that was no more than an illusion to him that ran beside him on a long car journey on the freeway had become so much more. He hadn’t expected his first meal after things got bad to be the flesh of another, though he’d take anything over starvation. He could block out the acrid taste if he tried hard enough. From there, they’d only gotten closer, curled up in alleyways to spend the night, basking in each other’s warmth.
Had it not been asleep, it would have likely gone better. He’d grown hungry in the middle of the night, waking and unable to sleep again. That had led him into getting up and going to see if he could scrounge for anything that nobody would notice missing, yet failed and had been backed into a corner. A desperate whistle for help yet nothing came.
