Chapter XXXIV:

I’m alone again. I found myself walking along an empty road. I knew that it couldn’t last. At least Elizabeth didn’t die by my hands. I don’t even remember killing the priest. He might have been trying to help me. Luna really has that much power to get into my head? I found myself shaking.

What am I going to do now? I couldn’t stay there. The people in the village would think that I did this. I didn’t kill my wife. I didn’t kill her. I can’t say the same for the priest. I tried to push those thoughts out of my head. I can’t think about that now.

I noticed that it got quiet around me. She’s not laughing at me. She has me all to herself again. What does she want with me? Why does she want me so much? I puffed up my cheeks. This can’t keep going on like this. If the church can’t help me, what can I do?

I couldn’t make myself turn around. I know that she’s always behind me. I couldn’t go back normal, and I had no way to get back to the old world. Where am I supposed to go? I didn’t have much of plan at the time. All I thought about what my wife. She was just starting to warm up to being a mother. That was another thing. I was never going to hold my baby. Sure, I would have children in the future. One of them would live into adulthood. At the time, I didn’t think that I would have anymore. What did I do to deserve such misery?

“That’s the problem with you humans. You think you deserve things.”

I refused to turn around. I wasn’t going to let Luna get to me again. I was going to have to get rid of her. Even if the church can’t help me. I am still going to try. I gritted my teeth. I wasn’t going to be a victim to her game anymore.

Small drops started to fall on my head. I glanced up just in time for it to start raining. I am back where I started again, aren’t I? No money, no home, and no family. This is how it always ends up for me. I should’ve been used to it by now. How long was I going to be alone like this? I can’t get close to anyone, but I don’t want to be alone.

But she wants it that way. Because of this, she has to go. I will find a way to do it. I was going to find a way to reclaim my life one way or another.

With one more step, I was out of Georgia. But I still didn’t know where I was going.