Every day. Every day, the creature restores my form, returns me to life. Every day, the creature tells me to fight it. Every day, I lose horribly. The creature
is shrouded in the dark, but even so, I can feel wisps of it's form. It towers above me, envelops me, it seems limitless. I strike at it and can feel it. It feels
cold, unyielding, hard. In some spots, spongy, hot to the touch. Menacing, covered in spikes, in scales, each part different and shifting. It's voice always booming as
if coming from the very space I'm in, rather than some physical place.
Each morning, the same, I am reformed, the creature tells me to fight or surrender. It reminds me that it will all end if I surrender. But each morning I pick up whatever
weapon it has given me to fight with, and try once again to slay it. I am it's toy, it gives me swords, guns, blades, maces. It provides armor, machines, vehicles. Some days
it pretends to hide. Others it takes a smaller form, gives me an illusion I'm even making it tired. I slash it, burn it, freeze it, shoot it, it feigns injury, it retreats, advances
performs strategies, avoids my strikes. And then, at the end of the day, I am annhilated as if I was a paper cutout. Torn asunder. Smashed flat. Disintegrated back into the void
only to be reformed in the morning to fight and struggle again.
So why, why fight over and over again? The creature made a deal at the beginning. Fight me with all your might, every day, for eternity. I will return your form every day and
give you the choice again. If you want to end it, I will release you, take your form and leave you to rest. But I will spread my darkness to everyone you love. And I can assure you
it will feel much worse for them than you feel right now. But you. You will be free. So every day, I take up whatever toys it wants me to amuse it with today, and fight. I fight
not because I can win, but because to truly lose is too costly. Every day, I have to fight this dark creature to keep the same darkness tormenting me now from tormenting others. So...
I will not stop.