Dionaea

Silence. Suddenly the whole world went mute, leaving me helplessly alone. My pupils widened in a fruitless attempt to gather more light. Alas! I was blind and deaf in the middle of the forest, a place where no weakness is accepted. I was doomed and I knew it. Feverishly, my hands grouped around, searching for salvation – a help, protection… Ah! Acute pang pierced my palm, making me pull it back horrified. Red blood crimsoned the snow. No chance I slipped her attention… Despair enslaved my mind, immobilizing my body. I was about to die here, all alone, ripped up fiercely, one of her nameless victims. I was to be forgotten, erased from the face of the Earth, and my spirit, fated to wander among this icy desert, should never rest in peace… Tears flushed from my eyes when I visualized my foreboding future and my wounded soul cowed before the nightmare that was lurking ominously among the trees…. My wrist was getting numb with cold, I couldn’t feel my fingers any more… Even though I was blind, I was perfectly conscious that soon my body would freeze and thus it wouldn’t be in its power to save me form her deadly embrace…
    Out of a sudden I felt stronger. No, she wouldn’t conquer me! I wouldn’t let her satisfy her avid huger with my flesh, condemning my soul to eternal sufferings. Implying superhuman efforts, I gripped the dagger that had teared up my skin, and stood up, aiming it at the oncoming evil. I wasn’t a dead man yet and my last chance to survive was this fight…
    An intoxicant aroma invaded my senses… Vanilla… It penetrated deep into my mind, enchaining my consciousness, vanquishing all my defenses… My heart was about to explode… That scent… Her scent… She had found me… She was coming for me…
    Then I saw her… Slowly approaching towards me, she was dazzling. Her fine white dress was shining so brightly that I couldn’t help closing my eyes. An useless attempt to protect them… However I was well aware that my current sufferings were nowhere near as cruel as the pain that this graceful lonewild’s kiss was going to cause me. I fought my instincts and opened my eyes.
    Icy fire devoured my brain the moment I met her look! So tender and mild, as if it was promising me love – sincere, vehement, bizarre!; her face was irradiating peace and goodness; her skin, - that gentle, transparent skin! – was perfectly smooth; her long blond hair was making her look angelical… Her rose-red lips curved into a shy smile… What a beautiful creature! Exceptional! So innocent, so gentle… The dagger thudded on the snow, but she never even glanced it. Her emerald eyes were fixed on me…I was moving towards her, just one step and she would be mine… She was an angel, my guardian angel… She couldn’t possibly hurt me!!!
    Then I saw it…I saw that flickering victorious flame in her eyes. Just for a second, but enough for me to wake up. I stepped aside in horror and grouped around for the dagger. The lonewild realized she had lost her power over me and in a blink of an eye the graceful young girl transformed into a huge lamia!
    Should I run? But where! I was doomed…Desperate, I was searching for the razor, while the dragon was preparing to have dinner with me… Then a miracle occurred! Unintentionally, my hand made a bizarre curve and gripped the dagger. In less than a second I pierced the heart of the beast…
     Fearful roar echoed in the coldness. The dragon collapsed on the snow. Yet it was not the lamia any more… She was back again, my angelical lonewild… She was dying… Her eyes were begging me for help… I let the dagger fall on the snow and stepped back, unable to avert my eyes from her… I could see no blood – only the light she irradiated intensified. It blurred the curves of her perfect body, evaporating it into fine fume that flew towards the stars…
     I could now see the sky, the forest, the snow and the pool of blood I was standing in. I was alive, indeed I were… But I could sense a part of me had died with her. Immobilized, I stood there, my blood running, my body freezing… I didn’t care… Nor could I feel the pain. I was numb… My gaze was directed towards the stars, towards her, my angelical lonewild.
     It might have been a minute, it might have been a week later when I was finally found. Dozens of people encircled me, talked to me. I couldn’t hear them. My mind, it was out there, among the stars… I couldn’t either fight those people, my body wouldn’t obey my mind. But what I could do, - and believe me I was doing desperately! -, was to shout in my mind “Leave me! I want to live! She’s up there waiting for me! My beautiful lonewild…”