Chapter 362: Final Farewell
“No. You can’t go after them!” I yelled at the top of my lungs when I was finally certain that the prey that they were hunting wasn’t me at all.
My parents and the younger version of myself were in extreme danger. I ran as fast as I could after the wolves and after my parents while I prayed desperately that I would catch up to them before something bad would happen. Although I was safe, I knew that they were in great danger. A foul sickening taste filled my mouth as I feared for the worst. Although I couldn’t remember what happened, I could frankly imagine what the end of this hunt entailed.
Was this how I lost and got separated from my parents?
For a moment, I started to dread the answer to this question. Although I figured that my parents had probably passed away a very long time ago, when I was younger because I couldn’t remember them, there was a time when I hoped and prayed that my parents would one day magically turn up to pick me up from the orphanage. I wished that we would be reunited again and live happily ever after just like in a fairytale with a happy ending.
Sometimes I wondered if it was better for my parents to have simply abandoned me rather than have them lose their lives. It used to give me some comfort to think that my parents were alive somewhere out there because that gave me hope that one day they might return to find me. However, as I grew older and as the years went by, I became convinced that my parents may no longer be in this world.
“Stop! Don’t hurt them! Please don’t kill them!” I continued yelling as loud as I could.
By the time I caught up to my family, it felt like everything had already come to an end. I didn’t get to witness what happened, although I could see the result of the slaughter right in front of me. Perhaps it was better for me that I didn’t see all the violence that broke out and how exactly my parents lost their lives. My parents’ bloody bodies laid on the ground but my younger self was no longer in sight.
What happened here? Where did you go?
Some wolves were still standing around, but the majority of the pack had already moved on somewhere else. My entire face went cold and my entire body felt so numb and void of life. I couldn’t move, and for a moment I couldn’t even breathe. Even though I knew that it was a postability, it felt very different to see the lifeless corpse of my parents lying on the ground not so far from me. It really drove home the fact that my parents had long left this world.