Dani "I don't..."
"She turns to me."
"So you see, you don't need to worry."
"Only people close to me die, after all."
"You're not my girlfriend or my family or somebody I give two shits about."
"You're just some random mentally retarded little brat."
"Oh? So why are you running around in the forest in the middle of the night?"
"Isn't that something only somebody really retarded would do?"
Dani "Like I said, I'm not retarded! I... I was just looking for my mother..."
"Your mother."
Dani "Y-yeah. I saw her land around here somewhere..."
"Land- what?"
"Look, kid, I don't have time for your delusions."
"You want to find your mommy, wait until it's nice and bright in the morning."
"You never know what kind of person you'll run into in the woods."
"Murderers. Thieves."
"Maybe even a demon or two."
Dani "B-b-but what if she's lost in the woods?!"
"If your mom can't find her way out, what makes you think you have a chance of finding her?"
Dani "Ugh... I..."
"She sighs again and reaches out for my hand."
"Come on, brat. Enough of this nonsense."
"I may be the spirit of disaster, but trust me, I can hold my epic powers of death and disintegration back long enough for me to take you home."
"Her hand looks silver under the moon. Weak, somehow. Like a single touch would make it fall apart like powder."
Dani "...no."
Dani "She's somewhere here, I know it! She fell from the sky and landed right about here!"
"If you keep this bullshit up, I'm just going to leave you here and let the wolves eat you."
"There are rabid werewolves running around, you know? Maybe even a vampire or two."
Dani "But she really is here! I saw it!"
"So, let me get this straight."
"You saw your mom flying in the sky with sparkly angel wings."
"And then a comet struck her in the head."
"And she came flippety-floppeting down through the air like Peter Pan sans fairy dust."
Dani "Yeah! That's right!"
"Really?"
Dani "No, well, my mom doesn't have angel wings or anything like that."
Dani "Uh, but, she's been a star for a while now after that thing happened, but it's kinda lonely with just me and dad, so I asked her to come back, and then she turned into a shooting star, and, well..."
Dani "This is where I saw her land."
"..."
"Kid... no, wait, what's your name?"
Dani "Dani."
"Dani, can I ask you a question?"
Dani "Sure!"
"Do you believe in Santa Claus?"
Dani "Huh? What's there to believe in?"
Dani "He drops by every Christmas and gets all the good children awesome presents. That's all, isn't it?"
"No, I mean... Santa is real, right?"
Dani "Of course he's real! Are you saying this backpack he got me is a fake or something?"
"..."
"Why do you think your mommmy's a star, Dani?"
Dani "Hmm? I'm not sure what-"
"I'm stupid, Dani. Explain it to me so I can understand."
Dani "Well..."
"Start from the very beginning."
Dani "Okay..."
Dani "So, uh, mom is a suuuper famous magician."
Dani "She flies all over the world to entertain people with her magic."
Dani "But then when she left for her last tour, the plane exploded!"
Dani "She's magic, after all!"
Dani "And since she was there already, well, she figured that she'd go visit the stars for a change."
Dani "So she turned herself into one of them and she's been up there ever since."
Dani "Well, until just now, at least."
"Heh."
"Did you just make that all up by yourself?"
"I at her."
Dani "My dad told me."
Dani "Though he's being silly and pretending that it was all a huge lie."
Dani "I'm not going to fall for a stupid prank like that. Hmph!"
"..."
"Your mom."
"Her stage name... Estrella. Isn't that right?"
Dani "Yup! How did you know?"
"I just read about her in the news a while ago."
"She was one of the passengers on that plane that exploded."
Dani "Oh, so you know all about it already."
"..."
"Dani."
"You do know that in that accident... there were no survivors, right?"
Dani "Hmm. Really?"
Dani "They must've missed my mom."
Dani "She's really good at vanishing acts, after all!"
"...I see."
Dani "So..."
Dani "Will you help me find her?"
Dani "She's got to be around here somewhere."
"She's gone all quiet. Weird."
"Dani."
Dani "Yeah yeah?"
"I'm the spirit of disaster."
Dani "Yeah, and?"
"That means I am omniscient when it comes to disasters, from the beginning of the universe to the very edges of the fabric of space and time."
Dani "Omni- omnishi-"
"It means I know everything."
"I know everything that happened to the plane that exploded with your mom on it."
Dani "Oh! So you saw her fly away into the sky too? My mom's super cool, isn't she?"
"Dani. Listen to me."
"I didn't see anybody fly into the sky."
"All I saw was the explosion..."
"The flaming debris..."
"And every single person in the plane screaming as they burned."
"Dani..."
"Your mommy's dead, Dani."
Dani "That's not a very funny joke."
"It's not a joke."
Dani "Well then it's a big, stinking lie!"
Dani "My mom said she'd come back!"
Dani "She always comes back!"
Dani "She brings me chocolate and cake and ice cream and all kinds of weird-"
"No, Dani, she's dead."
Dani "But-"
"She's dead."
Dani "No-"
"She's dead."
Dani "You're ly-"
"How many times do I have to tell you?"
"She's."
"Fucking."
"Dead."
Dani "..."
Dani "You're enjoying this, aren't you?"
Dani "You just want to make me cry so you can at me, right?!"
Dani "Well, I'm not going to!"
Dani "I-I know a boy just like you in my class..."
Dani "One day I saw him take a baby caterpillar..."
Dani "He poked at it and poked at it and poked at it..."
Dani "And then he grabbed its head and tail..."
Dani "And then he slowly, gently ripped it apart until its insides fell out..."
Dani "Then he squished the two parts with his fingers while they were still wriggling for help..."
Dani "Well, I refuse to be your baby caterpillar!"
Dani "You should die! I hope you die! And... and...!"
Dani "I hope your mom and dad die too!"
"Did you forget?"
"I'm already dead."
"Everyone I care about is dead too."
"My mom, my dad, everybody."
"I killed them!"
Dani "You...! Murderer!"
"No no no, not a murderer..."
"Spirit of disaster, remember?"
"That story that I just told you about getting shot in the chest..."
"There's a hilarious little epilogue to it, you know?"
"The victim - me! - had a mother, who was back at her parents' place because {i}her{/i} mother was sick and depressed."
"After hearing that her dearly beloved daughter was in the hospital and might die at any second..."
"She got into her car and raced down the highway, crashing through all the speed limits like a lunatic..."
"And then..."
"Boom! Crash! Bazam!"
"Bye bye mommy, hello morgue-y."
"H-how can you talk about your own mom like that?!"
"Man, the funniest part is this. See, it wasn't long before {i}her{/i} mom heard about it."
"Two weeks later, right before I woke up, {i}she{/i} threw herself off the roof of her apartment."
"They buried her next to my mother."
"The earth on her grave was still fresh."
"Bam bam bam!"
"My girlfriend!"
"My mother!"
"My grandmama!"
"Three women in a single blow."
"Damn, I'm like, the most efficient spirit of motherfucking disaster ever."
Dani "Why... are you smiling?"
Dani "You're weird! I don't understand you at all!"
"You're the one who's weird."
"Tell me, Dani. What happens when people die?"
Dani "H-huh? Why..."
"Just tell me already."
Dani "W-well... you go to live in the sky. I think."
"That's really weird."
"Why would I be sad that the people I love are living happily together in the sky?"
Dani "B-because you can't see them anymore?"
"I can see them any time I want."
"All I need to do... is die."
m "But but but! What about all your other friends who are alive?!"
"That's what a spirit of disaster is for, isn't it?"
"I just need to kill off everybody so we can all live happily in the sky!"
Dani "That... that doesn't make any sense!"
"Why?"
Dani "B-because... uh, erm, because..."
"Because people don't really go to the sky."
Dani "But... but..."
Dani "Where do dead people go then?"
"Nowhere."
Dani "Huh? I don't-"
"You're dead, after all. You can't go anywhere."
Dani "B-but your spirit?"
"No such fucking thing."
Dani "I, I, I don't-"
"Your body rots and becomes maggot bait. That's all that happens."
Dani "I'm not talking about my body! What about me?"
"I jab a finger at my head."
Dani "The 'me' inside here!"
"...nothing."
Dani "What?"
"You become nothing."
"You just kinda... stop."
Dani "Then... my mom... she..."
"She's not coming home, Dani."
"You can look in the sky all you want. She's not going to be there either."
"This isn't a fairy tale, after all."
"Magic and spirits and creepy fat old stalkers don't exist."
"Well, except for that last one, but they sure as hell don't go riding through the sky on a sleigh pulled by prancing reindeer."
"I stare up at the sky."
"Mom..."
"Didn't you say you would definitely come back?"
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