DEVIOUS
I am philis, the devious. Unlike Philis, the murderer, the rapist, the demented and even the sadist, i have no time for madness. The only thing mad about me is my determination. The last time I had come out, I had a lesson to teach a certain molester for a guard and I believe he would agree with me in shame that I proved my point. Today I have more serious things to do. Today I intend to leave our prison. I must confess that there are other pressing matters like the congestion in this head we share but that would have to wait.
Lost in the multitude of beings that made up the new conciousness of Philis, I pondered hard on how this child had been able to fertilize her mind with the seeds of the demented, giving birth to myself and the others. The way she draws every word, thought and even memories of all those around to her. It couldn't be, or else every man and woman would most likely be like her. Insane.
If it had happened when she was whole, her mind not yet broken, where else would the answer now lie? A quiet shard amidst the sea of shards that was now her fragile mind. As silent as a thief, I send slivers of my being, seeping out of my shard, touching the multitude around me, in search of a being that lay dormant and alone, just as Philis the child had always been. Slithering and searching in that young head till I found what I sought, tiny and insignificant. Nothing more than just a chink in shape and size.
Simply ecstatic, I plunge myself into her, seeking the secret to her power. To what was now rightly our power and she cried in helplessness as I stripped her of every thought, idea and image till she was naked and there in her nudity was the truth of her being. A small dark thing that was as much light as it was shadow.
I reached out to touch it and then I cry for I am suddenly drawn further into it. 'A trap!' I cry but it is no help. I am slipping into it's darkness and light while it grows in size and boldened by this, it reaches out for other shards to take into itself as well. All of a sudden, I am no more. Or am I?