3: From Endless Darkness To Endless Suffering

Some of the Others seemed to suddenly have noticed something about Jūra – at least, that was what the child thought when It heard two women clothed in tatters mention It's name in their conversation, but, as soon as the child took the liberty of looking at them in hope that they will finally say something that It actually would understand, one of them threw a piece of cloth on Jūra. - ahhaguae'vrkadec wnonWnael nk te ir d, - the woman said, and the child recognized her as the one that gave It It's name, - hjavvf'ssns aeieu ee stl. - Jūra remembered the woman's voice to be gentler, but now it seemed to hold disdain – although the child didn't know what she talked about, It could feel a shiver going down It's spine.

- naottsmrD'te e, - the muscular brute in front of Jūra said as he suddenly stopped and turned to face the woman that was following. The man's gaze fell on the child, no, he looked at the cloth that was thrown on It's head. As he released Jūra's hand, Jūra collapsed on the sand due to not being able to even support It's own weight – that's what can be expected when a person has never actually walked before. The brute made a gesture with his chin and the woman quite crudely pulled the child's arms up so she could tie the cloth around It.

Now Jūra was not only dragged around like a sack of potatoes, but also looked like one.

The woman turned around and went back to stand next to the slender woman she was walking next to previously and seemed to quietly say something to her – although Jūra was interested in that, nothing changed the fact that even if It was able to hear anything from that conversation, It still wouldn't be able to understand anything. But this single moment did make Jūra think if It wasn't able to understand any spoken word other than It's newly acquired name or It wasn't able to understand just this one particular language since Jūra didn't know if It was even able to speak since It hasn't even tried that before, but the child knew for sure that the language that It thought in wasn't something that those people had ever heard of.

Perhaps, if Jūra tried to speak, then the man who had started to drag It by It's hand again would stop to listen to what It had to say. Perhaps, Jūra would be able to voice It's confusion about this whole situation and just why these people suddenly had started to treat It differently. Was there really something that different between It and the Others?

Jūra quietly re-observed the man in front of It – massive and really muscular body, pony-tail. It tried to compare the muscular brute with the woman who dressed It – the woman was slender, her ears were pointy and located at the sides of her head, her hair were light and much more cleaner than anything that It had ever seen so far. The brute and that woman had nothing common except for being humanoid.

Was that it? Was Jūra not a humanoid?

For the first time since Jūra had been able to think, It had tried to learn something about It's outer appearance in order to understand the difference between Itself and the Others.

While still being dragged by the brute, Jūra tried to use It's left hand that wasn't being held by the man to examine It's head.

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First Jūra tried to find It's ears. After a struggle during which It tried to understand how to move It's hand, the child was able to feel something at the sides of It's head – Its ears seemed to be similar to those of the woman. After further examinations, Jūra was able to find two eyes, a rather small nose, and mouth, so this far It seemed not to differ from the woman, so It's confusion, as to why It was treated differently from her, only rose. Could there be something other than these signs that could indicate a difference? Was there something like a second pair of ears on the top of It's head that would make the Others think that Jūra was an inferior being? Was It inferior because of a genetic mutation? That seemed to be so wrong.

Jūra gulped. It quickly tried to find the second pair of ears on the top of It's hand with It's left hand only to find something else. And it wasn't just one. Whatever those things were, they were hard, rather high, rather tangled in Its hair, and way colder than Its head, but no matter how hard Jūra thought about those things, It wasn't able to understand what those were, but It certainly knew that those things on It's head must have been the reason why the Others treated It differently.

- arntDbma, eoaetmfrvs, - the brute's voice suddenly pulled Jūra out of It's musings, so Jūra decided that it wasn't a good idea to show any sign of resistance, it would be much safer to be obedient for now, so Jūra tried to do It's best in using It's legs to move even a tiny bit faster that It did before – maybe if the Others saw that Jūra was a nice child and didn't want any trouble, they would start to treat It better. And that would mean that It's chances of getting out of this wasteland alive grew! At this thought Jūra even felt a small smile appearing on It's face, but this small smile quite unfortunately seemed to have been noticed by the brute. - itmgplSsnoi, itetid gyrh yn, - the man spat on It, thus making Jūra utter a small, quiet scream in surprise.

Jūra hadn't thought about this before, but, by a chance, was smiling a crime? But it shouldn't be! The man with smelly breath laughs almost all the time and even now, but no-one had spat on him! Was it related to Jūra being inferior?

Just the thought of not being able to so much because the Others deemed It to be an inferior creature, made Jūra feel so weak and useless. Did that mean that It's desire to have a meaningful life just became impossible to fulfil? Did Jūra just lost It's freedom?

Because of these thoughts, something seemed start to fall from It's eyes and It's breathing started to become heavier as sounds that Jūra wasn't able to describe escaped It's throat.

- oesiySurl? tt t oait r groNhhsscwtnaty? - the brute mumbled as he heard gasps behind his back. - kumitcJs sat, - the voice of the man with the awful breath answered from somewhere behind the brute and Jūra's backs.

Jūra wasn't able to understand, what happened after the smelly breath answered to the brute, but It felt It's consciousness starting to fate. That and an awful headache.