The Children of Glass, Kingdom of Pain

A bitterness swam through her. Finally Terra had come home, her love, her queen, but was it really Terra. Rheynne felt the pain come back, and grabbed her breast, digging the nails deep into her skin, drawing blood, and wrenching the pain from inside to outside.

(I would die…) Where her head rested on Terra’s shoulder, tear drops created pools of water to reside on the gold fabric. In a quiet voice, one filled with love, and hinted with something more, Rheynne spoke.

“Is what they say true? Are you really a new girl? Do you sleep with men in gutters, and kill homosexuals on the street?” Somehow Rheynne had learned never to trust anyone, and now she couldn’t even bare the fact that Terra would lie to her. She despised it, a loathing hotter than boiling water on flesh.

“No…” Her voice was sweet and fluent like a cup of refreshing water. It tingled inside Rheynne’s ears leaving a feeling like that of a mint on ones tongue.

Rheynne raised her head, her eyes almost pleading Terra to be telling the truth. “Ages ago My Terra, when this land still had green plants and a sky of merrilion blue, there was something that was rumored to be a trick to finding out the truth. Poison was injected into the skin to get the truth, boiling water poured down the throat to extract evil, soap washed within the mouth to purify a person. These times were when one human did not trust another. This was a place where accusations where made to kill an enemy. It was called the Salem Witch Trials.”

Terra nodded her head in grave silence. She knew these tales to be true, she remembered the books her family had passed down. The ones of a family member’s death. Rheynne took her nod for a cue to continue.

“What they didn’t know was that these totures where inaccurate….” Rheynne trailed off to find a face filled with astonishment and accusation staring at her.

“Inaccurate! They were tools of horendous pain, created only to kill and maime…Where do you come off saying that?! The only thing these people wanted where to destroy innocent people! And-” Rheynne reached out and held a finger up to Terra’s lips.

“Hush.” Terra’s eyes glinted with a fire Rheynne had never seen. Terra had always ordered her around, it was a time for a change. “They were inaccurate in what they were made to do, which was to acstract truth of conspirations with the Devil. And now, in this time, the time of a Kingdom of Pain, we have made inventions far more on the dot in order to get what we want.”

Two humans dressed in black robes came in. The robes trailed all the way to the ground, and the hoods came over their faces showing nothing of their apperence. Between them was a glass box holding what looked to be a sleeping child. A gasp came from Terra’s throat and she felt that she might throw up.

It had been said that there where children who were renouned for their ability to withdraw the most intiment secrets from anything. It could be a rock or a human, it mattered not. Their entire past was revieled to the child, and all the child had to do was touch the object it wished to know. There was one trait that made the child so different from others. Something that all humans could see. The child was sexless. It was neither female nor male. All the child had between it’s legs was skin, like the soft baby skin of a teenagers breasts, covering the area. Most of these children were killed because the only people who wanted them were higher archey’s who used them to extract needed information. If a child was found they were trained in the arts of their master or mistress, and were required to be completely coherent to their wishes. The ones that had been trained were also blinded to create a kind of dependency on their master or mistress. Their eyes were glazed with a kind of lasic sergery that caused them to turn an icy white. Unfortunetly there became a time that the blindness was nothing, a their ability to see beyond was so strong they needed not the help of their masters or mistresses, because of this their was an adaptability that the child developed. The ability was to be able to live without air, which kept them in an endless sleep, and only let them wake when air was given, but it was another means to keep them bound.

“Isn’t it beautiful?” The madness was complete within her voice now. Terra backed away from Rheynne now. Her intentions were completely wiped away when she saw the thing. “Do you know what it is My Terra?”