Run

Here's a tip. When trying to get rid of a body, don't drag it like I did. It just leaves a trail of blood and if you are the murderer, feeling incredibly guilty for it then its just going to be a painful experience.

But that's what I did, dragging it from the hotel, freezing time in the process to attract attention to myself.

When did I learn to stop time?
It's kind of one of the things Ben taught me, its not really a thing I'm allowed to use often as it involves using the godsway and it kind of catches the attention of the fears.

I made an exception this time.

After what I perceived to be an hour of just dragging the lifeless corpse of Ellery I finally managed to get to the river. That's where I proceeded to dump xer body in the lake.

I watched for a while xer body just floating away in the water, coloring the lake with xer blood and brain fluids.

I made time go on normally again, walking away.

It's not safe for me to be here. I don't want to be here.
Ben is not being the person I thought he was, dismissing a death like this. I don't feel like I can live here or anywhere for the matter.

I'm going on the run.
I don't care if the fears go after me.

I hope they kill me.

It will cleanse me.

Body

So today I woke up without a clue where I had gotten. I was in a park near the hotel.
When I went up to my room, I saw xer.

Ellery.

Lying on the floor, xer face just as I left it.
Xe was lifeless, of course xe was..
I didn't know how xe got here or why xe was here to begin with.

Xer blood was leaking, soiling the carpet. It was a sight to be hold for sure.

Why is the body here?

Why...

Replacement

Excuse me if I am not in the mood to cheer and wave and blog to all my might.

All I've been doing is whine, moan and watch pay-per-view movies in my hotel room. Ben told me to just move on, that Ellery didn't matter anyway, but I found it kind of harsh what I did. Sure, EAT would've killed her anyway by making xer part of EAT's massive hive mind.

Did that justify it? Maybe, but that doesn't change the fact that I feel like crap now.

I'm not like my sister, I can't just kill people for the sake of it. There has to be a reason and that reason used to be that they were fear servant.

But now I'm beginning to question even that.

I felt like slapping Ben in the face when he told me he was going to find a new helper.

Like Ellery just was some exposable pawn. Xe wasn't...

The replacement is Emily, an 8 year old girl. Well, I suppose the benefitting part is that I can't talk to her or get attached to her like with Ellery.

Her mouth is sewn shut.

"Why did you sow her mouth shut?" I asked.

"I didnt, she did it out of her own free will" Ben said resting his hand on her head. "Isn't that right Emily?"

Emily nodded.

Screw this...I will get myself a separate room and drink Bourbon until I can't feel feelings.

Death

So something unexpected happened.
While we were strolling around, trying to figure out how we could best destroy EAT; a camper attacked us. It was quite out of the blue as well. He attacked Ellery, sort of biting xer. I'm not sure what exactly he did to xer, but thats what it looked like.

After I killed the camper, what I noticed is that Ellery's skin was blue, along with her hair color changing into said color as well. It wasn't that grand, but I figured that xe would become a camper soon enough.

I did the natural thing. Walked up to xer, put my glock in xer mouth & pulled the trigger.

It may sound like it was easy for me to do and I'm just a cold blooded killer who doesn't care about anyone. It wasn't easy. It took me a while to just be able to do the first part.

To say that Ellery's shyness made xer cute is like an understatement, so this was the equivalent of going up to a new born kitten and shooting it in the head.

Am I proud of this? No...but his was a rather preemptive strike, since as a camper xe wouldn't be alive anyway.

Still...

I feel unclean.

I just-

Fight

We arrived at the gathering. It couldn't have been more than maybe 12 campers there. Ben was anxious to just slaughter them all. Ben never liked EAT, in fact I think he hates EAT with a burning passion.

I once asked Ben why he hates EAT so much.

"Whisper, its because she doesn't deserve all this power. She doesn't deserve being one of the mightiest. It should be I"

His eye twitched a bit, which makes me believe that its only half the reason why he hates her. Something happened, but I didn't feel like pushing it.

The battle, what can I say about it?

Ben charged at them, turning into the Black Dog once again and mauled two of them with ease. I started shooting at them as I ran towards them. I must've killed 3 just by doing that.

It was a success. Ellery didn't do much though, xe struggled with one of the campers punching xer. But that didn't last long since we were there to help. Xe killed one camper though, which is a start.
Xer technique was shoot until whatever your problem was drops, I guess that works, but it would've been a bit more professional had xe had her eyes open during.

Ben returned to his human form, overlooking the now deceased campers.

"EAT didn't put up much of a fight today, now did she?"

"I don't think she cared about 12 campers. 12 campers are easily replaceable" I said.

"Yeah, I guess you're right" He said.

"That was cool of you guys" Ellery said all the sudden.

We looked towards xer.

"Your fighting styles are awesome!"

Xe hadn't talked much before this, so I guess we were a bit surprised. We just smiled at xer.

I guess this was a productive day.

Training

We started to train Ellery. I think that xe is a bit of a clutz. I mean granted that makes xer out to be kind of a cute moe type person, but sometimes you have to give up that kind of cuteness to be effective in battle.

Ben was a bit more impatiened with xer than I was. I think Ben has just put xer in my care, for now at least. I taught xer how to use a blade and the basics of using a gun.

After a few hours xe got the gist of it.
I'm thinking of allowing xer to stay in the background and help as much as xe's comfortable with on our next mission. There is a gathering of a few dozen campers here in Rhode Island.

That is where we will strike next, wish us luck!

Awkwardness

I think Ben just goes off so that we can get to know each other. Ben always says that nobody works well with strangers.

Xe is unbelievable shy around me, so there wasn't much of actual conversation.

"So, how did you get dragged into this?" I asked.

Xe just looked down and said nothing. I left her to xerself, because if it was me I wouldn't want people pushing on my buttons, if you guys know what I mean.

Although if xe doesn't talk soon that may be a problem for me. Because I always am anxious to find out the most about new people and befriend them. It annoys me when I'm unable to.

Ben came back with a bunch of guns and blades. I guess that explains what he was up to. I wonder if we are already going to target EAT or if we are training Ellery first.

I should find out!

Servant

Ben returned after I had stayed in the hotel for a few hours. He returned with another person. A person which...I couldn't really point my finger on if it was a guy or girl. It was like looking at professor Oak's worst nightmare. This person, whatever gender xe was, was really cute...adorable even if I might say so.

Xer long flowy hair was of course the first thing I noticed, the color was some sort of purple or violet, most likely colored unless I missed something about how genetics work in this world.

Xe just stayed a bit in the background, xe was shy, apparently.

"Who is this?" I asked.

"Ellery, a new servant" He said.

"A girl?" I asked, as I was quite curious.

"Ehm..no, I just-" Xe started to say.

I think I understood immediately  I may be from the 1890s, but...I'm surprisingly aware of how much in terms of sexuality & gender has changed over the years. People are often surprised that I'm not a racist, homophobic bible nut.

That's a bit ageist, if I may say so. Not everyone at that time was a jerk like that.

Anyway, Ellery sat down in the chair and started to fiddle around with a rubix cube that xe had.

"Ellery will join us. It is your to explain our mission. I'm off to deal with some servants" He said, rather disrespectfully.

He stormed off again.

"Hi" I said and smiled at xer.

"Hi, so you are?" Xe asked.

"Whisper" I said and shook xer hand.

"Charmed, so what's the mission?"

"Right...me & Ben, who is the Black Dog as you may or may not know are working towards decreasing the number of fear servants, especially campers. Our goal is to kill every single camper, thereby killing EAT. We have many other goals, but those are the main two."

"You think we three will be able to achieve that alone?"

"Well, sure!"

"That doesn't seem realistic"

"Just have some faith. Ben has a plan." I said, stood up & walked towards the mini-bar "Do you drink?"

"Oh no, alcohol makes me nauseous"

"Suite yourself" I said and took out a beer.

It was certainly cooling, one of the best I've tasted here in Rhode Island.

"So...how old are you anyway?" I asked.

"21, turning 22 in a couple of months"

"Ah, cool!"

"And you?" xe asked.

"134" I said, waiting anxiously to see the look on xer face.

"Right, I assume you have some kind of fear influence working for you in that regard!?" Xe said.

"Yes" I said "How familiar are you with the fears?"

"I know the basics"

"Good.  Got any weapon training, martial arts, anything?"

"Not really"

"Any weapon you have?"

"A blade!" xe said and showed me the blade xe kept in the inside pocket of xer long leather coat.

"Alright, that could work"

After that xe went to sleep, probably exhausted in the same manner that I was yesterday. I just went and watched TV.