The Boy
Could you please turn the light off good sir, asked the boy, timidly. Why, asked the guard, he was not so fond of the new boy. They don't like to visit when the light is on, they say it shows them for who they are, and they don't like that. Who's them, asked the guard? They never tell me, but one looks like the knight, he even has an armor and a shiny black sword, the other one doesn't look so good, he has a big scar on his right cheek, and he doesn't like fire at all. What are you talking about boy, the guard asked, it wasn't unusual for him to hear such things, but this boy made him uneasy, when he looked at him, he felt that more than one pair of eyes were gazing back at him. Once mommy left the lights on, my sister was afraid of the dark and mom dad were going out so she had to sleep in my room, that night when they came they asked me who she is, she was really pretty you know, and she used to laugh a lot. But when they looked at her, she was laughing ...