╔══════════════════════════════╗ 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐀𝐔𝐋𝐓 Ⅱ ◷ 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐏𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝟐 ◷ ╚══════════════════════════════╝ Colored glass bleeding over black tile New halls, new names, been lost for a while Silver on my chest and it’s colder inside First day here, something don’t feel right Caught something move when I looked through the glass Turned my head quick, nothing there when I glanced Then a voice from behind said, “You lost?” Turned around 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐡, 𝐈 𝐠𝐮𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐈 𝐚𝐦 ━━━━━━━━━━ ◷ ━━━━━━━━━━ Her name’s Emory, books in her arms Walked me down the hall like it wasn’t that far Everybody knew her, she knew ’em by name Whole place cold, she was warm in a strange way Gave half her food to a kid by the stairs Picked up some papers like nobody was there Didn’t need praise, didn’t wait for a thanks Just did what she did, then she went on her way 𝐈 𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 ‘Cause everything else felt off Clock on my chest went cold when I walked Shadows got long when the hallway got dark Swear mine moved when I didn’t at all ⋆｡°✩ ───────── ✩°｡⋆ Tell myself New place, new nerves Every little sound gets worse But if nothing’s really wrong in here 𝐖𝐡𝐲’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐟𝐞𝐞𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐝? ◷ I see dead lights flicker when I walk by Hear steps behind me, but they don’t match mine Same face, same name, same look in the eyes Tell me how I’d know 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝 Something in the walls Something underneath Everybody looks the same Till you see behind the teeth If I know your face That don’t mean a thing Some things look like us 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 ━━━━━━━━━━ ◷ ━━━━━━━━━━ Few nights in, walking back alone Dead bulb buzzing at the end of the hall Somebody standing with his face to the wall Didn’t move once Didn’t breathe at all Took one step He took one too Stopped in place Yeah, he did that too I turned left Then his neck turned slow Body stayed still 𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭’𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐞𝐰 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Seen that face somewhere earlier that week Now the eyes looked hollow, smile looked weak Mouth moved late when it tried to speak Then another fucking face Moved under his cheek One in the jaw One in the neck One disappeared Then another came next Different eyes Different mouths All pushing out Like everybody that it swallowed Was trying to get out ━━━━━━━━━━ ◷ ━━━━━━━━━━ Then it ran at me 𝐃𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐥𝐨𝐰 Fist hit stone Whole wall cracked where my head just was Swung back Face switched Don’t know who the fuck I’m hitting now Young face Old face All dead All trapped Every time I hit the thing Another person stared back Hands on my throat Back to the wall Silver went hot Then 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥 ◷ Hand by my neck Dust froze in the air One breath One chance 𝐈 𝐠𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 Time came back I drove it into stone Once Twice Heard six voices groan Faces ran wild Till it couldn’t pick one Then the body hit the floor 𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐠𝐨𝐧𝐞 ━━━━━━━━━━ ☾ ━━━━━━━━━━ So that’s how it works 𝐊𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐞 𝐁𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 Take enough pieces Till nobody knows you’re gone Take how you walk Take the sound of your tongue Then go back to your people And live like nothing was done ◷ ───────── ◷ I see dead lights flicker when I walk by Hear steps behind me, but they don’t match mine Same face, same name, same look in the eyes Tell me how I’d know 𝐈𝐟 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐝 Something in the walls Something underneath Everybody looks the same Till you see behind the teeth If I know your face That don’t mean a thing Some things look like us 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐧’𝐭 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦 ━━━━━━━━━━ ◷ ━━━━━━━━━━ Next day back like nothing went wrong People still laughing, bells still going off Emory saw me sitting alone Sat right beside me, didn’t ask what was wrong Made some dumb joke, got a laugh out of me Then gave her food to somebody in need Same girl I met when I walked in confused One normal thing I didn’t have to prove But now I’m watching everybody How they blink How they breathe How long their smile takes to arrive How their shadow hits their feet Every hallway got a question Every face became a threat Funny how you start seeing monsters 𝐎𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮’𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐦𝐞𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐞 ━━━━━━━━━━ 🕯️ ━━━━━━━━━━ Then one night 𝐑𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐞 Followed the trail For a little while Round one corner Saw one hand Saw those books And understood Before I even saw her face 𝐄𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 「 𝐍𝐨… 」 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Eyes wide open Blood gone black Body cold No coming back Hands that helped everybody else Lying empty at her sides And I know what did it Know what comes next It didn’t leave her here by accident It learned every word Every walk Every breath Every little piece It would need to pretend ☾ ⋆｡°✩ ◷ ✩°｡⋆ ☾ Then 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐭𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩 Behind me Another Real slow And a voice that I know Says 「 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐬? 」 𝐍𝐨 Turn around Same clothes Same hair Same eyes Same stare 𝐄𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 ━━━━━━━━━━ ◷ ━━━━━━━━━━ Look at the floor She’s dead Look up She’s smiling instead Not some twisted monster grin That’s what gets me 𝐈𝐭’𝐬 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬 Same smile from the first day When I didn’t know where to go Same tilt of her head Same warmth in her tone And that’s worse than a monster With blood on its teeth ‘Cause I know that she’s dead ◷ 𝐀𝐅𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐅𝐀𝐔𝐋𝐓 CHAPTER 2
