The Outsider
Anna. That’s what Ethan the one who gives me food everyday calls me. But others call me ‘One’. Like the number. Like I’m an object. The first to be discovered. But they suspect that there are more like me on this planet but I don’t know. If there are, will they save me? Do they even know of my existence?
These humans as they call themselves taught me their language. They taught me alphabets, words, sentences till they were sure I could answer their questions.
They were nice to me then but they stopped teaching once they learned that I’m no use to them now. Ethan is the only one who’s nice to me. He told me that they’re going to kill me soon. Now he tells me that only two days are left.
But he is a fool. He doesn’t know why everyone is harsh to me. It’s because in the last three months five guards have been nice to me. And I used them to escape. I killed them.
But Ethan doesn’t know that. And he doesn’t have to till I finally reach the oceans I only see from inside.
