Chapter 71 - 71. Prediction
Sitting in front of my cellmate, Henry had again ignored
and sat beside . Whatever.
Nice to know that one thing hadn't changed from before my imprisonnt, which was GETTING STALKED BY THIS MOTHERFUCKER.
That reminded . I touched his shoulder unabashedly and flipped the coin. Gold, palm, eyes, and ears uncovered, incorrect past of Henry Devin.
A monstrous deer stands in a clearing amidst the deep black forest. It drinks out of a stream of murky water, before abruptly stopping. Another deer approaches, and both stare at each other before attacking. With their protruding skulls, they confront each other like bulls, the sharp edges cutting through the thin flesh on their heads. The long snout of the first deer attacks the eye in the hole of the other, sucking and eating it out. A grotesque sound is heard, and the other deer falls, its body starting to wither.
I ca back and found my food not that appetizing anymore. This confirms that these monsters are our counterparts, like Henry2 and Kenny2 and the rest were. But why am I not seeing Henry2's pasts, but instead his monster-self? I can't tell.
What had changed?
Henry said he bet that the next portal would be in the sinkhole. Could it really be this? Am I seeing these monsters because their parallel world is the next that would open, or already had?
If it was like this, if these portals would open constantly in the future, and if I could get at least a hint of what would happen by flipping the coin—well, it would be ti to again bow down in front of my ability.
"What did you see?" Henry asked , leaning to .
I pushed him away.
"Wanna hear my theory?" I chewed on my chicken, shallowing it while suppressing the thought of how the deer's eye would taste.
"Tell ." Henry's head was tilted, he shoved his food away and laid his head on his arm, looking at
like an obedient dog, full ears.
"You were right, with more portals and more monsters. But these monsters are not random creatures." Wiping over my face, I put the cutlery down and ca closer to him.
"They are our parallel-world selves." Taking my water bottle that ca with the food, I drank from it.
"Like my sister and her dead doppelg??nger are connected, we are with these monsters as well?" He asked, his eyes pensive.
"Yep. Everyone here." I pointed around us in a small motion.
"Should exist as one of those monsters as well. Maybe reincarnation, perhaps parallel worlds, I have no idea."
"But we know," Henry started, and I pointed at him, while turning back to my food, finishing his sentence,
"That these dinsions are breaking down, crashing in our world."
Again, a crazy anticipation surfaced inside , and at the sa ti I felt agitated by the outlook of my future.
"What exactly have you seen?" Henry asked , and although I would prefer to punch him and never ever provide him even a bit of information, he was the only one believing
in here, the only one I could talk to.
My cellmate ignored us, always the good listener. I couldn't tell if he believed or understood what we talked about, but it didn't matter.
I opened my mouth, and a sudden paranoia overca . I bent down and looked under the table, before reaching over the table and feeling my cellmate's chest. My cellmate let
do, just looking at
in confusion.
Henry gripped my hand and pulled
back, and I saw a guard coming to us.
"What are you doing?" Henry asked
coldly, and I reached for his chest and felt it as well, only feeling safe again when seeing neither of them were wearing a recording device.
I sat down again, and Henry followed
to sit as well.
"Even if they hear, let them." He seed to get my reasons and finally let go of my wrist.
I needed a few minutes to calm down, and watched the guard turning in his step, for soone else that acted out.
"I can choose to look into this future, or a parallel-world future, this past, a parallel-world past. When we t..." I was again so angry, just thinking of that ti, that I needed to stop.
Henry seed to be really putting all his attention on . When he saw
gripping the table with trembling hands, trying not to lose it and punch him to death, Henry pulled on his uniform, showing
the swollen bite mark I had left.
"It hurts trendously." He said seriously, and I cald down a good notch again, seeing that I had already brought him pain.
"Back then, when looking into a parallel-world past or future, I saw the human counterparts of the world your sister went to. At least the ti it was complete, not only this city-part amidst a forest. Now, instead of human counterparts, I see the deer-monster-counterparts." Having finished, I went back to eat, not wanting to look at him again.
"Because the deer monsters are coming next?"
"I think so."
"Hmm, I bet we soon can take a look at the second portal for ourselves. It would be best you get as much information on how to kill the monsters as possible." Henry ominously announced.
I looked at him involuntarily. Had he lost it?
Maybe we can get free one day in the future, but more like in years. Not soon.
Henry looked at my face and chuckled,
"Don't believe ? I bet twenty thousand bucks on it."
"Suit yourself."
Never in my wildest dreams would I have thought Henry's prediction was more on point than mine—of the one who can actually see in the future.
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