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Monologue Of Burl

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We move in swarms, it’s safer this way. We make them confused and disoriented, a bunch of little black dots speeding around their heads. We are mosquitoes or the “vampire flies” as he called us when he was young. Most people don’t like us, they think we are a nuisance and are glad that spiders eat us like candy. We aren’t always like that; we are vital to animal’s food sources as main courses. We hover in the middle of the cliff like a bear stalking its prey. We have followed him though we have stayed at Ghost Lake the entire time. We were birds observed from the skies when little Laura passed away, we were the maggots in the mushroom Burl tried to eat, we were the deer and fish his father hunted and we will be everything he sees in his life. …show more content…

We are glad he has chosen this path. We have watched him since little Laura ran away and we have rooted for him. Laura has been rooting for him and when his yell rang through the forest and his feet finally pound away from Pharaoh, the whole forest breathed a sigh of relief. The air being held within everything part of the forest since Burl received his first beating is let go. He is scraped up and hungry. We took the mushroom for ourselves and our favourite leaves were not appetizing to the humans. He gradually approaches our swarm wavering from consciousness and unconsciousness. He pushes forward leaving the horrors behind with every step. When he reaches us we engulf him like the hungry beasts we are. At first, he swats at us lazily but then he gives up and we dig in biting down on his scabbed and bruised skin. Sucking in his blood we sense his emotions, his anger to Cal the phrase “you steal everything” running through our minds, his curiosity of the helicopter, his worry about Cal finding him and his secrets from everyone. It is then that we are connected. We know what he feels because it is what we relive. Suddenly we feel the excitement from his blood. He starts to run and

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