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I left him dying there. Alone. As usual.
As I started to walk away from him, I heard his muffled cries of pain. They were slowly turning into a voiceless echo in the night. This echo did not have any sound, but it burned inside my mind. It was etched in my brain, after that night. Sluggishly is moved away, and as I lit a cigarette, I heard the sweet continuous gurgling of his blood.
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It never gets to me. I never stop and think about what I am doing. I perform them in a sequence of unconscious acts. The only thing that I know at the times of the acts is the music. The music I hear in my head. It is always the same music. Always Beethoven’s 9th Symphony. I find myself humming it. This piece of music is my only key to my past. When that car crashed and I was alone in the world, the radio was playing that piece. What happened before or what will happen afterwards is just a blur. It is not of great importance or consequence to my tale. My only care is the present. Everything, every minute was once present. Our present is what affects us the most. Past and future are secondary and resultant of it.
You may think that I am mad, crazy or a lunatic. That is neither here nor there. That is all a matter of perception of reality. If you care to know who I am, then you curiosity will soon be quenched.
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The first time was the hardest one. Well, before this at least. When I saw his face I could not bring myself to do it. This made things much more arduous. I do not know what he had different, but I knew that this subtle distinction made the world of difference. It could not be seen from a photograph. But when one is close to him, you could sense it immediately. To this day I do not know what it was.
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My name is Vengeance.



