The Monster Inside

I used to think there was something else living in my body.

Sometimes, at night, my hands would move by themselves. My feet would carry me through the house, stumbling into this and that, and I never had any control. At first I thought I was sleepwalking… but then I started to talk in tongues. Languages I had never learned before – complex sentences that flowed like water from my mouth.

Chinese, Arabic, French, German, Latin… every language possible. I found pages of my handwriting spelling out words over and over. My parents used to think I was doing it on purpose, acting mental – to try and scare them. But being in a body that moves and talks without any of it being your doing… it scared me more than them.

When they caught me trying to vivisect myself with a steak knife, they had me committed.

The doctor who saw me was the best the hospital had to offer. He spoke to me everyday, once after breakfast and once before I was bathed.

I told him everything I knew.

Soon after, he tried to hypnotize me, to get the truth from my subconscious. As my eyes unfocussed, I heard a voice in my head. “Kekkyoku.” And then I was gone to the world.

I woke up a week later, in my bed. I was out of the hospital, and had missed an entire week of information. I found a note next to my bed. “Jordan, we love you so much. You don’t have to lie to make us pay attention to you. Please take care.”

It didn’t take me long to find out what happened.

The thing living in me had somehow gotten out, and had me out of the hospital by weaving a complicated tale of lies to thank me for being a Host. I suppose I should be thankful – my parents seem to love me more than ever now.

Later, I found the sheets of foreign words stuffed into a drawer. I ran them though an internet translator – not the best of ways, but the easiest and fastest.

Every single sentence translated to roughly the same thing.

“Let Me Out.”

And now it is wandering the world. Who knows what it’s searching for? Who knows where it came from? None of that is important right now. But there is something you should know, something I finally figured out.

You know when you feel your eyes unfocus without reason? It’s not random. It’s something else looking out.

Don’t let it Escape.