The sudden voice startled me. I frantically looked around for whoever was there, no one was supposed to be here!
"Tell it to me..."
I saw no one, but suddenly, things became very dark, and I turned to look over my shoulder, trying to see the lamp, only to find that my shadow had taken an odd form. Fear swelled up inside me, I couldn't control my breathing. Then glowing eyes, eyes that blazed like the setting sun opened on my shadow, and I couldn't look away.
"Tell me your secret... and I can promise you."
"Promise me what?" I seemed to reply without thinking, while my mind was blank I guess my instincts went onto auto-pilot. The eyes narrowed slightly, and suddenly, my shadow was a physical form, and a long slender and lethal looking hand grabbed my chin and the eyes were closer now. Burning into my mind. While the grip was forcefully, somewhere I knew that if I moved even the slightest bit, I could get free.
"Tell me something no one else knows, and I can promise you my services."
I was getting even more and more confused. What was this thing? What was it talking about? Why was it here, and what kind of services? Appearently I spoke the last one out loud, or it could read my mind since it replied.
"I am a collector of sorts... I like knowing things no one else does. If you give me your secret, I can lend you my power."
I was slowly losing myself in those blazing eyes. And its offer of power... I could use power right now. I had no idea what it was... but it seemed to me that it was powerful enough to get done what I had wanted.
"Does that mean you'll take my secret? I won't remember it?"
It seemed to laugh, but the sound only echoed in my mind. I wondered where it was exactly, since all I could see were the eyes, and I only felt the grip on my jaw.
"No. I collect, I don't steal. You will still have your secret... as long as it stays yours and mine. You must understand something... no one, absolutely no one, must learn of the secret you give me."
"What if someone learns of my secret?" I don't know when, but somewhere in this strange conversation, I stopped wondering what it was, and my fear seemed to have vanished.
"If someone should learn of it... then you will no longer have my services. I warn you child... I don't take kindly to the secrets I've collected being told."
Meaning that it would probably kill me. That usually was the outcome of deals like this. Death. Oddly... that didn't scare me as much as it should have.
"You have a deal... You just want one secret right? Something that no one knows about me."
There was that echoing sound in my head again, the scorching eyes became bigger, and I could tell from looking that it was smiling, even if I couldn't see the smile. The grip on my chin seemed to loosen, and the hand moved to cup my cheek.
"Yes.... now tell me.... Tell me your secret... and I will grant you my services while it stays in my collection...."
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