Monday, December 13, 2010

The Caretaker and the Child (Part 4)

The Devil brought Gen into a dark room, filled with candles...lots of them.There were tall ones, short ones, but he saw an exceptionally tall one with three letters carved in a grotesque red on the candle-- GEN.
"These are Lifespan Candles, everyone has one. As the days goes by, the candles get shorter. When the fire goes off, the person dies. Yours is the tallest, this is what you get when you come with me..." the Devil smirked, placing his hand over Gen's shoulders.
Just then, Gen was transported to a hospital, in an ICU ward. In front of a patient, but he was invisible to the people and staff there.
"Now, you have to learn to take lives away from people. Chant this incantation in their ears three times and you are done..."
The Devil pass him a piece of yellowed paper to Gen. Gen saw two lines separated by symbols.
"What is the second line for?"
"It is the opposite of the first incantation. It lengthens one's lifespan but you would have to shorten half of your lifespan..."
What would Gen do?

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