Everlasting dream (18+)

Author: jrell

Chapter 117 — So unfair!








Another bite of meat, another grimace at its awful taste. It was like a mixture of rot, old spoiled cheese, and... earth, somehow? The boy swallowed it anyway, licking his pink lips clean. 'Why does life have to be so hard? Why does it have to be like this...' It was a question that plagued his mind a lot these days, as he had too much time to spend on his own thoughts.
Once promised a happy life by the goddess, Aster couldn't help but feel betrayed, tricked. Given how things had been for them over the last few years, it was hard not to feel that way. Goblins, starvation, a dark forest, wooden creatures, and morally questionable humans—each encounter should have ended them. Each time, they barely managed to escape the grasp of death. Now, trapped in a dark maze filled with unimaginable creatures, he was starting to lose hope that things would get better.
People... they shouldn't look at gods the way he did. Something broke inside him that day, as if his mind stayed forever at five, even when his body grew into that of an adult. All he cared about was getting better at music and art; he didn't care about the rest, no matter how important it was for a normal human being. Friends, relationships, hobbies, even his health... he didn't care. Nothing else mattered. He only pretended to be normal so he could fit in. But inside, beneath the mask of a sane person, was something utterly broken.


Once he managed to calm down, Aster looked around again. His mother's thighs were still cushioning his head, while his sister was right next to him, muttering under her breath like a cute, grumpy old lady as she worked on a piece of cloth with her needle. 'Yeah, things could be worse. Much worse,' Aster thought, his eyes flicking up to the ceiling, watching the small crystals that hung from it, their faint blue light shimmering gently in the dim cave, making it almost look as if they were stars twinkling in the night sky above them. 'Maybe that's all she promised... just a family that loves me. A lot of people never get something like that,' he thought, gently patting his mother's soft buttock and feeling its plump flesh jiggle gently against his small hand.



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