The dirty dishes lay in the sink while the motionless body sprawled on the kitchen floor.I glanced at the pendulum clock on the blood stained wall,behind the body of the man who was asleep,never to wake up again.
His dark,ragged coat and faded clothes made it clear that he stayed
in one of the cottages in the outskirts of our small town,that were allotted to lawyers and medical practitioners.They were not allowed to live with people like my dad,the decent people who earned enough income to feed their families,in contrast to those well educated,that is far more educated than clerks and accountants like my father,because
they have committed an "unforgivable sin".That is for me to discover.Because nobody ever told me,a twelve year old with an infinite curiosity and burning desire to learn everything,about what that sin is.Not that I never tried to know,but i did not succeed so far.No clue.No hints,whatsoever. Obviously,this only made me more inquisitive.I felt lucky to be able to meet a man(unfortunately,a dead man)from that forbidden part of the town. I couldn't stop myself from wanting to investigate more.
Although my palms were sweaty and my heart jumped out of my mouth,I slowly went to the man who lay there smeared in blood now. I squatted beside him and started to observe him carefully,beginning from his face.I soon spotted a little area on his left lower jaw. That attracted my attention,because it looked like a wound made by something strange,because it was the shape of a hexagon,with a flower in the centre of it.The cut was incredibly small,so i had to squint to see what it is. And it was glowing navy blue. And blood started oozing out of it in bubbles. I was bewildered .The bubbles changed direction and rose into the air. A flash of maroon light blinded my eyes and before i knew what was happening,I was inside a globe,that was wavy and blazing,giving off bright red sparks continuously.But the weird thing is I was ununaffected by the heat. I could see that the heat would be unbearable if only i could feel it.A reflection of me appeared on the surface of the globe,right in front of me.It was not the same though.
That wasn't the exact me.I had gleaming blue eyes,when i actually had brown eyes. I could see a scar below my right eye,that seemed like the one i saw on that man's jaw,only a little bigger.My hand unconsciously reached for the scar and it was actually there on my own face.For real.So it occurred to me that my eyes also have turned blue.