“You´ve
got to be kidding!” said the Very Big Sister Caramel to the Blue Knight
Thirds. “There´s no such thing as you told us, c´mon! You, lousy rat,
are trying to make a fool out of me with this bullshit. I wish I were
the Queen of Hearts and could chop your head off!” “Milady, I swear on
my horse´s back that what I´ve told you is true! Absolutely and
completely true”, said the blamed Knight. “I´m sorry if I didn´t
convinced you, but the world out there is as I told you. This is nothing
but the truth, believe me, please.”
“You are a fool! How come
Knights now swear on their horses and not on their mothers´ hands?
You´re a fake Knight, I can tell you that!” said the Very Big Sister
Caramel turning her mouth and pointing with her Royal Toe to the
Gentlemen at the back of the Princess Seat at her left. A very loud
scream filled the Audience Hall immediately after her Royal Imprecation.
“See
what I mean?” asked the Knight, utterly frightened, with all his
armored body holding back, squeezing the chest as a dental tube, quaking
just like a chicken facing a fox.
“I wonder how you got your
knighthood?” the Floating Head of the Lord and Master of the Auditory
asked: “You seem like a feather shaken by a storm to me. As the wind
blows, the twig twists. Or something like that” he (or his head, if
truth be told) finished his saying, confused and gasping.
“Have
you heard that awful growl?” asked the Knight, terrorized, pointing his
only left finger upwards. “This is The End, as I´ve warn you, but you
wouldn´t listen! This is one of the... things the horrible world I´ve
described to you is bringing upon us”.
Meanwhile, the unholy
screams made the whole building tremble repeatedly, but the very last
one put all the people on alert, evidently stiffed with terror. “See,
Milady? What I´ve told you is true, indeed! There is another world, and
is very different from ours!”
Now the Very Big Sister shook and
wept. “And what are they supposed to do with us? Tell me or I´ll kill
you with my own hands! I´d rather do that than wait for this strange
persona to kill all of us!”
“I wish I knew, Milady! I wish I knew,
indeed. My knowledge of that wicked world comes down from glances and
glimpses of here and of there.
I swear I did not see their world
but only foresee it as in a crystal ball. Forgive me if I have no
answers, please!” Those were the Knight´s lasts words, a giant beak
grabbed him and thus he disappeared from the Very Big Sister Caramel´s
side. In a split second, the only thing that remained in the air was the
screaming of the Knight and his swearing. Then, these words were
thunders in the ears of the Gentlemen and Milady the Very Big Sister,
who were now sweating like a blue giraffe in summer: “Is this short
fellow good enough for you, Mom?” said the Big Bug Samsa. “Oh, c´mon,
this is not enough, you bet! For heaven´s sake! Not enough for me, not
for anybody! Please!” Mom Bug said.
The Bib Bug Samsa looked for
more food and there they were! A multitude of little people were in the
bushes that reminded Samsa Bug of himself a few weeks ago, before the
Metamorphosis. They were more than his beak could ever take, so he said:
“Mom, I´ve just spotted your dinner! Please call Father Bug to eat
also” and begun picking King´s Gentlemen and King´s horses (actually,
Princess´s belongings to be fair).
These were the very consequences of Metamorphosis, and of course, Bugs´ appetite.
Héctor Ranea
"Knights do swear often" está publicado en Heliconia Flash Fictions and Short Stories
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