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Ithaqua knows that his mother is not really his mother, but he doesn't care.
One time his mother tried to explain to him but she didn't have to talk much to know that
He was not a beloved child in his blood family because, in the end, if someone loves you, they don't love you.
left in the cold snow to die.
So as far as Ithaqua is concerned, his mother is his only family, she taught him everything.
that she knows and taught her to be happy even with the little they have. He will always be
grateful to his mother.
He can remember when he and his mother would go out and make wreaths with the flowers they
they found in the forest. How they went for walks and ate outside their house from time to time.
when. How they talked about what their future would be like and what they would do the next day and the next.
following.
Ithaqua was happy with his mother.
Everything was peace, tranquility and joy until the rumors started. The first rumor that
he listened. A witch in the forest.
—
He can hear his heart beating as if someone had ripped him off and left him behind.
side of his head, he could hear the gallops and how the riders dismounted from their
horses of him.
His mother knew it, (somehow mothers always know) and she hid it inside her
a broken wall of his house. The wall had a small hole where you could see all the
his house but they couldn't see him, he knows this because he used to hide there from his mother
when they played hide and seek.
He heard them knocking on the door and finally breaking it down by force and then...
He saw it, a demon with the same face came in and beat his mother while he was preaching that
she was a witch who deserved divine punishment.
He was afraid for his mother but she turned to look at the wall and even though she didn't speak
He understood what she meant by her look “Don't go out” so he obeyed and stayed.
in that place without making a sound while he watched how they hurt his mother.
After a while they took his mother and when he was sure that no one was there
but, he came out. The rage, anger, and sadness he felt led him to follow them through the forest.
leaving behind his house alone and destroyed until the entrance of a town. But there was so much
people who lost sight of them at some point but that didn't matter because they knew just
where he had to look.
—
Ithaqua didn't know what to feel when she saw her mother again, the smile she used to wear was no longer there.
He was used to it, now he was just a broken person and broken to his desires.
the demon that had his face.
He could feel his blood heating up and then he decided, even if he wanted to know.
Because that demon had the same face as him, he wouldn't let his curiosity win, he
he would kill that demon.
—
The only time Ithaqua had blood on his hands was when he hunted for food.
him and his mother, he learned from hunters in the forest and stole some traps for him, never
He hunted nothing big, some rabbits and small animals but he never had the blood of
another human being in his hands.
He once thought what he would feel if he killed someone but he ignored that question since his mother
She always said that it was not good to hurt other people, somehow she always
He believed that he would feel bad if he did it since he would disobey his mother and he would be
doing something bad, but now with the demon's blood on his hands he realizes that
He feels nothing but sick satisfaction.
Although ithaqua wanted to be able to ask that demon why he had his face, well
It's a shame the dead can't speak, he supposes it's a doubt he'll never know.
will have an answer.
So while he picks up the sleeping body of his mother and takes it out of the church of the
demonds, he returns to finish his job, turning everything into ashes to burn
in hell like the demons they are.
—
Ithaqua knew that his mother would not be the same but a part of him still had hope.
Every time he tried to approach or feed her he was greeted by heartbreaking screams and cries.
on his mother's side. It broke his heart more and more, but there was nothing to do.
With the damage already done, he only had to watch his mother suffer from the atrocities that
she committed that demon.
His beloved mother would no longer be the same… and neither would he, he would no longer let anyone else in.
to the forest to harm his mother again, he wouldn't let them get close.
Then he took his gun and a mask, he would never show his face again and NEVER
He would allow them to get close to her mother again, he would do whatever it takes to protect her.
just like she did with him for so long.
“Don't worry Mother, they will never be able to hurt you again” was the promise of ithaqua for his mother as well as for him.
—
When ithaqua received a letter with a strange invitation, his first reaction was
just throw it away but when he took the time to read it carefully he couldn't help but
think about accepting the offer that was written in it.
Maybe this was what he needed to make things go back to the way they were before, which
he needed to get his mother back to what she was before that monster put her
hands on top of her.
I turn to look at my mother and see her resting deeply as I approach her,
Maybe… maybe this is what we need one last chance to make things right.
different, so that we can have that peaceful life that we always dream of.
So, mother, just one last time, let this son do something for you, something for you.
May we have our happy ending.