July 1

I met a Carrier of The Birds today. She just walked right up to the front door of the facility and asked to speak with me.

Well, she didn’t ask for me by name. She asked to speak to The Nothing. Bastard.

She didn’t even flinch at all the suits pointing guns as she walked in. Just said that even if we killed her it would not hurt her master.

The suits gave us a holding room to talk in. The Carrier was actually pretty cute. A blonde wearing a flowery sundress. Her arms were covered in scars where hundreds of birds had ripped out of her, but even those scars looked soft. It had probably sent her on purpose. She may have been in our facility, but I was the one it was trying to break.

She told me quite a bit. Erasing The City had affected the rest of the Fears. They remembered it? Of course they remembered it. They’re more than human. Their minds are so much greater.

They will win. They always win. She says I can’t stop the end of the world, but that doesn’t mean I won’t try. I was being asked to join them. They could help me stop the world from ceasing to be. All I was doing was inflicting the Fears upon another world prematurely. If I joined them….

A drop of water landed on her lap, turning the flower petal black. I looked up and noticed she was crying. 

She said we were similar. “We both hold the powers of Fear. We can even control it. But we will never fully understand them. Never fully control it.” And she took my hand.

And was gone.