Everyone knows

 Superstitious are we? Since when? 

If you could see what I see when I close my eyes... you couldn't imagine as far as I've been.

Don't. Say another word.

Or else the truth will slip out.

You cannot share this. With anyone.

They already know. Everyone knows. As long as they breathe, they are within the know. They can wake up when they sleep. Like I do.

You're alone in this, and no one will believe you... 

You do.

...

You wouldn't fear the words from my lips if you didn't. Why fear something insignificant? A waste of energy and beneath you. 

I could end you.

Why haven't you?

...

You can't hurt me, can you?

-A thud, with a shallow pool spreads. Two legs twitch without ceasing.

Yet it is you, in your fear, that lies in blood, and I have yet to know the same fate. 

A finger hadn't been lifted, yet the outcome was resolute. A swift hand decided on the prisoner's behalf. Mere luck or forces outside of the prisoner's knowledge? The footsteps ahead shall reveal their fate. Those who live and those who have fallen.