[Fic] Butterfly Venom - 00
“According to the “Butterflies” chapter in Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn, a butterfly is seen as the personification of a person's soul; whether they be living, dying, or already dead; in Chinese culture two butterflies flying together are a symbol of love, whereas in some old cultures, butterflies also symbolize rebirth into a new life after being inside a cocoon for a period of time.”
Prologue: Fairytale Gone Bad
They say this is 2010, twenty-first century, the last era of humanity and they all look like madmen because, hey, if I’m gonna die soon, at least I’ll do it without any regrets.
TV stations speak about ash clouds and the end of the world, not caring a bit that maybe the Apocalypse they’ve all been waiting for might not be exactly what they’re expecting it to be, but something totally different. Bibles and holy books become bestsellers, just like buying their tickets to Heaven, as if sins could easily be washed away with money, as if reading a book would guarantee them a place beyond skies (wishful thinking, yeah, but they’re only humans).
In their silliness, they fail to see that, while Armageddon could fairly wait a little longer, stranger things happen around them, people dying, corpse gone missing, yet the only reaction they seem to show is indifference and oblivion, the weird phenomena simply passing by as yet another murderous illness; one more reason for them to believe that the end is near, God is angry and Bibles are the only ones that can provide answers to all the wrong questions that is (maybe not quite in that exact order).
So, while they pretend to pray, they struggle to change a little bit (for the sake of changing really, they aren’t actually the religious types) and try to create romantic endings just like in those sappy dramas they all watch, the dark alleys remain unguarded, safe hideouts for all the creatures of the night and their terrifying secrets.
The reality is simple - they are not the only intelligent beings out there - but they have yet to discover that and, while they swim away into their stupidity naivety, we will keep on living in their shadows, breathing into their necks and sucking their existence away.
They created fairytales - we give them a whole new meaning.
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Chapter 1: Almost Paradise (It Looks A Lot Like Hell )