- Revenge, what do you mean? –

The Darkness was watching me with an expression of mockery.

- Do you know how long have you been here? –

I was stumped. How long, he said. To be true, I did not think about time.

- I mean, I am dying. For what purpose I would think about time? –

At that moment, for my surprise, I realized something. I was thinking without problem. I was feeling free and tranquil for the first time.

- My body is still here! – I realized surprised.

I remembered that my body 21 years old was vanishing into the Darkness, my conscience was disappearing, and yet I was here safe and sound. It was the same as always: my toned muscle, long brown hair, blue eyes and the signs of my past battles. All of me was there.

- Are you happy? – Inquired the Darkness always mockingly.

- Why did you save me? You were … eating me! –

- HAHAHAHAH!!! –

- What was funny?- I thought with resentment.

- Do not worry about! It was a trial. You would have died if you failed it -.

- What?! Should I stay calm because of what you just said?! –

- Stop your blathering now! There is not much time. Not for you and not for me -.

The pressure was terrible, and I was trying hard to stay upright.

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That man, the Darkness, was gazing me with his horrible red eyes, and I was feeling entrapped as a butterfly on a spider web.

It was for a second, but it seemed to me like an eternity had passed.

- Do you remember what I was saying to you? –

- You stayed here for a long time -.

I felled a shock in my body to hear those words.

- How long? -

- To be precise, in this dimension, time is inexistent, but not out of here -.

- HOW LONG?! –

- 23 years more or less -.

- Rose … Is she … -

- Oh, do not worry about her -.

- She is living lavishly with her husband, the prince and the rest of their family, thanks to you -.

- WHAT?!? –

I was stumped; she married the prince, after I saved her? Worst of all she was living with that bastard! –

- As I said, you will find many reasons to want revenge! –

For a long time I stayed still, unable to speak. The horrible reality had had the effect of a hummer blow. There was not words. I felt as dry well, without vitality and feelings like: anger, desperation, loss, was consuming me like a raging fire. The light in my eyes was dimmed and my gaze was lost in nothingness.

- It is difficult put your trust in someone, even more if that is a human -.

For the first time the voice of the Darkness sounded melancholic.

- My sister and I paid the price to have had trust in human beings and this is the result -.

I was listening barely still unable to accept his revelation.

- How … how do you know that is true? –

The Darkness sighed as was expecting my words.

- There is balance in everything – he said lukewarm. – I am Darkness and my sister was light. I can see the past because often the regret of men is the darkness in their heart and my sister could gaze at the future that often is hope for men and their light -.

- Look, then, at the truth and let desperation wake you up -.

Therefore, as I watched everything was happened when I was not in Fergana, my ruin was complete. My beloved, I was saved risking my life, left me for another man. My name was disgraced to conceal her betrayal, the truth denied, my sacrifice forgotten. All of my friends abandoned me in exchange for richness and power. They had created a new home in Fergana for themselves on my bones, flesh and blood. Why did they do this to me? We fought together, accepted our regret to have lost our home world and tried to find a new future in this new place. Yet, why do my hands can never hold anything? For what purpose, have I sacrificed my everything?

It was all for nothing.

- The human beings can be weak. It depends on their resolution –. Said the Darkness.

- This is your story, but is it even your ending? –

- Now, I ask you. Do you have the resolution to take back your stolen life? -.

- I do -. There is no more desperation, just my hate!