I am always the evil guy cutting off their heads. torturing them that deserve it but i have another side, life. all the small plants and animals. In my bedroom or rather cell I have a little window, the only way to interact with it. The window leads to a forest. there's always small bugs and critters crawling through. much different from the rest of my room. They treat me worse than the people I kill and torture but at least I have the portal to the outside. a loud knock comes on the door “next criminal is here, he got the death penalty” a voice says from outside. I respond while getting dressed “on my way”. The rest is just my job. putting on the hood, taking my axe and cutting off their heads. this one is crazy, constantly screaming. He's killed a twentieth of the people I have killed but still it's him not me. Next comes my favorite, the sound. you can almost hear his soul's relief. freedom but that's more than I have. next it's back to my cell the only light source is the window it's my freedom. Look at the first critter today: a little rabbit. I say to the small critter “hello little friend how is it going”. I feel his fur is so soft. I can't concentrate on the little critter due to the blood dripping on the floor from the axe. I put the rabbit down and walk towards the axe. i take it. it's covered in blood. I almost can't see my hand from the blood. The axe is already covered in ants and flies from the scent of the blood. I walk to the sink and another critter runs out from a crack in the wall. It's a mouse. I turn on the sink and wash the ants,blood and the flies from it. it all goes down the drain poor guy. By this time he has for long been thrown in the trash so this is the last of him and down the sink he goes. Once I'm done I put down the axe again as I look backwards, I see the rabbit has found my plant. I run towards it to stop the rabbit but the plant is long dead. I forgot to water it so that's one more death on my hands. Another knock is on my door ”food” as the food deliverer walks away I open the door and yell after him “hey guard” he says ”yes what” “could you get me another plant” “already dead! well alright tomorrow.`` I walk back to my cell and take the food with me. as i'm eating, one more critter enters the room through the window, A fox. it bites down on the rabbit and I almost drop my food as I run again towards the window. this time i make it. i pick the fox up and take the rabbit in my other hand. The fox bites me and escapes out the window again. I go back with the poor rabbit in my hand, it's bleeding. I give it some carrots from my dinner. I walk towards the window again and pick up the dead plant. I rip a leaf up. as I whisper to the plant “although your life is gone. you'll still save another life” i walk over to the rabbit and bind the ripped leaf on it to stop the blood from flowing out. I place the rabbit back on the window and it descends into the bushes again. I go back and lay on my sleeping slab. I fall asleep.

In my dream I see the poor guy. the man murdered by me. he`s killed twenty people but yet he dies and yet not me. he escapes from the ropes he was binded in and he runs through the door next to him i walk the same way through a corridor he runs and runs. but i'm still walking. the door in the other end disappears. he's still running. but when he gets there he stops. he turns around sits down with his eyes in his lap and cries. i step closer and closer. as i get closer he raises his head with tears dripping from his eyes. a look of despair i take my hood off. i have a stone look no reason to care cause god works in mysterious ways. i swing my axe again and chops his head off. the sound is satisfying, its calming. i wake up as a knock comes. “faster it's a public execution”. “I'm on my way”. I stand up and open the door. “do you have my plant” “later gotta get going”. I follow him through the castle. walking through the corridor. but the door, unlike in my dream, stays. the executed would wish it had but sadly it didn't. I walk through the rooms and the people around the castle give me looks. like i'm the bad guy but i am. Once we get out I see three people standing bound on a platform, two kids and an adult woman. They were stealing from the king and were sentenced to public hanging. A giant crowd is standing and yelling at the three persons I put the ropes around their necks. The kids are crying while the woman is standing and saying “it's all gonna be fine children”. I walk to the lever that removes the floor. The woman starts crying and I pull it so they hang. they're all dangling in the air. The guard follows me back to my room. I enter it again. this time i don't have to clean the axe. The bushes rattle again and the rabbit waddles out on its broken leg. I play with its fur so clean and soft free of the guilt of the souls. a rat outers the crack with a dead mouse in its mouth from yesterday. I can't kill it. it killed one soul while I killed more. too many to count. I put the rabbit down on the window and scare the rat away. I look back to see the fox come again and it bites down on the rabbit again. I pull them from each other now the rabbit's soul has half left its body. I take the fox in my hand and throw it on the ground, then I step on it again and again and again. it moves its paw barely able to move. i step again. its soul leaves its body and in that moment i realize what i've done. another soul. I fall to my knees and my tears drop for multiple seconds but then I wipe my eyes and stand up again. I help feed the rabbit with some little leftovers and wipe the blood away then it descends into the bushes again. I pick the fox up and throw it out into the bushes. I take the mop and brush the blood off the floor. A knock comes from the door “food” i open the door and stop him again. i say “what about the plant” “oh yeah sorry” he hands me a plant and walks away. I go back and take my food. I eat while thinking about the fox. I almost don't eat anything before I just drop it. I fall asleep and dream again about the kids and the woman.

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I wake up on the platform with my halberd. They begin to cry looking at me and they run down from the platform I run after them. running and running. I understand why. I keep running but I can't catch up. a wall rises from the ground and blocks the street. They run into a house on the side of the street and I follow soon after. I go in through the open door and see a hallway with two rooms. I go down the hallway and I open one to reveal an empty closet the next door they're sitting together in a corner. I walk over to them and swing my halberd cutting off their heads in one the sweet satisfying sound of their necks chopped. I hear a stomp from the doorframe and as I turn around I wake up before I see what made the sound. the next thing I hear “execution” I yell out “on my way” I stand up and look out the window. I look out the window to see the previously believed dead fox's heart beating and my mind fills with hope but then a rat bursts out instead. my smile turns to a frown. I turn around and then I open the door to outside my cell to see a man crying in the death chair. I step closer and he begs for life. “HELP! HELP! PLEASE HELP I DONT WANNA DIE '' i don't answer i almost don't hear him i'm just waiting for the sound. the chop and then it comes chop. blood spurts out of the open hole and his head falls to the ground. I smile as the blood soakes me. I walk into my room again. the rabbit waddles forward from the bushes one more step and one more step. I pick it up and cuddle it and see my halberds blood dripping down to the ground oh look this guy was juicy. blood spurted out of his body. I step over to the halberd and wash it without concern. It's just blood, he had so much of it. I get happy when I see the water turn red. it turns redder and redder and it goes down the drain. Soon I hear “food” and I open the door and he hands me the food and I take it. I gave some to the rabbit but it accidentally bit my hand. I bleed but it keeps eating. I look at it with a stare back then I throw it to the ground and stomp stomp stomp. my heel gets covered in blood but i don't care stomp. i fall asleep happily and I wake up in my bed.

I step up and open the door instead of the man. A big rabbit sits, it squeals and ticks but I don't react. I wait for the sound. the chop. and there comes blood flowing down his body and spurts out. His white fur gets dyed red by the blood. i wake up and see the dead rabbit. the man as always yells “execution” i step out of my bed and grabs my halberd before the guard goes i sink my axe down upon his neck. it bleeds out and another guard comes to his rescue swiping after me but I dodge and chop his head off too. the sound again. chop. another guard comes but i chop his head off before he even comes close i run out the hallway i run and run. I open the door and as I run I see people get startled. I look behind me and see guards chasing me. I swing my axe and try to get as many as possible. I take down four before the fifth stabs me. I fall to the ground on my knees. i see my life go before my eyes when i was a kid, always listening to nature i could grow up to be a botanist but yet i made this mistake.. When I grew up I executed the first person of many… My father. I still remember the chop. I notice my life, what I did, what happened and how i was brung upon this road. then finally in my last words I gasp out “sorry”.