The Fading Lights
Chapter 2, The ash of fear
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When the sun came out and its light consumed the darkness, people could have new hope, a new life had been given to them and that terrifying night has just passed after the rain had washed the blood that was coming from a dead body on the middle of Aljamaa Street near to Alfatih Tower, it didn't take a long time until every T.V channel was broadcasting that "Khartoum's sheriff was found murdered by a knife which directly directed to his heart" then people sadly realized that they had been given their new life because another life had been taken before, the darkness always must take something in return.
"The wishes, hope and faith fall from the sky and into their hearts, then they ooze through their veins and swim inside their blood and finally become every part of them just like the blood of that goat when it mixed with water of rain and then went to drainage" said Haitham when he was watching the T.V.
"You are telling me that they have to put them back into the sky, but for people of Khartoum city who continue living because of hope, faith and wishing, it will be the most painful thing they will ever have to do" said Barry while he was looking at Haitham's face.
He smoked for more last time and then he thought silently before ending the conversation by saying "what is dark is dark and what is theirs is theirs whether it is up in the sky or here in their hands"
Barry stood and before he left the place he remained Haitham not to forget killing the old woman and not to kill her by the same way that he killed the sheriff. Haitham never replied him, he just closed his eyes and asked himself a question "why don't I fear anything ?" he thought hardly about any answer but he couldn't find one.
Khartoum city that day was in mess, police men were every where, many people were arrested and many streets were closed, the sheriff was one of five people who are very important for the official government now, and the government had received a message said that those five people will be killed.
"They must be protected regardless of what we will spend and lose, they are coming for all of us as they promise" said the president to an officer.
"We are preparing for that now, but we don't know the place of your wife and what is she doing now" said the officer.
Angrily the president ordered him to find her without justification, the officer knew well that his wife wasn't important for him as much as the documents which she had and he could see the fear on his face so that he knew the darkness is coming now.
A man was moving confidently holding a black bag, wearing black clothes with black glasses and gloves, he stood in front of an office door and knocked gently, from the other side a female voice was welcoming him to enter the office and when he did, she closed the door from inside so that no one could hear anything, the man put the bag on the office's table while the woman was preparing herself to sit on her comfortable chair.
"Where there is money there is life" said the woman to the man.
The man took his glasses out and put them on the table and then he looked at her eyes deeply for a while and said "where there is life there is death"
"Don't be afraid of death, be afraid of not living life, you don't have to live forever, you just have to live" said the woman.
The man couldn't continue looking at her eyes after these words, he just took a cigarette and started smoking and said to her "you have to live even if it means to betray your husband"
Previously it was said that betrayal is the only truth that sticks and only those you trust can betray you, this what was the woman thinking about while she was taking some steps back before she started laughing and saying to the man "I never loved him and he never loved me, business gathered us and he used to date some women at my home as exactly I used to do"
The man never commented about she said, he just asked her a question "what are you afraid of ?"
"Nothing in life is to be scared, it is only to be realized, now is the time to realize more, so that we may have no fear at all" said the woman while she was taking the bag.
"In another way you are saying that you fear nothing" said the man.
"I haven't accepted fear as part of my life" she replied him.
Then the man said nothing and just watched her opening that bag, and continued smoking, suddenly she shouted saying that" there is nothing in this bag, no money, it is empty"
"There is a white paper inside it" said the man.
The woman checked it back and she found the paper pleated there, she took the paper and started reading what was written on it "I am the one who killed the sheriff and I have come to take your soul too"
Her face became pale and sallow, her eyes opened widely while her heart beats were striking quickly, the tears started to fall down, her body started to check specifically her hands, the man was looking happily to the terrible and natural picture of fear that was forming in front of his eyes.
"You fear nothing my lady, don't tell me that you are afraid of dying now" said the man.
The woman shouted but nobody could hear her and started begging him to save her life telling him that her life has a value, and then she started counting all the valuable things that she wanted to do or get before death.
The man was listening silently to her words, to her voice that was full of fear and every second passed made him angry, and when he couldn't handle her more he slowly cut her throat and watched her dying.
"Thank you my lady, you helped me to find the answer that I was searching about, people fear things because they value them, they fear others because they value themselves, they fear losing people because they love them, they fear dying because they value being alive, I didn't fear anything in my life because I value nothing" said the man
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To be continued ...
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