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Are you scared of the dark? Imagine you had just fallen 8 or so meters underground - you have no idea where exactly you are or how to get out. It is pitch black and you can’t see anything. Only thing you know and feel underneath your hands is wet and cold mud. What would you do? How would you find your way out?

Jade was the unfortunate one to get into a situation like that. What an unlucky day for her!

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Jade was analyzing in her brain what just happened for a few moments, until after the sad, sad realization, she started crying, sobbing even. She just saw a monster outside who killed all of the villagers. But then again, villagers probably wanted to kill her. They wanted to sacrifice her, hoping it would change anything. She remembered now how they were singing while walking to the old haunted house, carrying her, they TIED her up! How could they do such a thing to a poor human being that did nothing to them, in fact, Jade, as she was probably the wealthiest in the village, helped those villagers from time to time. She was just a bit different from them. She didn’t grow food, she just worked on the computer. Maybe that’s why? They just don’t like people that use that kind of fancy stuff, because it makes them feel like they are poor or jealous?

But that didn’t matter anymore anyways, since they were gone. ‘’For good.’’ Jade thought. In a way, she had felt some kind of connection between her and that monster earlier. Like she even felt a bit bad for it. It had its gut open, blood and organs revealed. Such a sad sight. But what was it? Did it live here? Was it going to kill her as well?

As Jade was feeling pretty calm already, she decided to get up and find out about this place she had fallen into. As she was leaning onto her hands to get up, she felt a cutting-through pain in her right arm, tears forcibly flowing out again: ‘’S**T!!’’ She cursed out from pain. It hurt really bad. Maybe she fell badly and wrung out her arm? Or she really broke it. This was like a cherry on top to this mentally (and physically) exhausting day.

After a few minutes or so, she felt like wanting to cry and think about her horrible life once over again, but she just had no tears left anymore, she was dry from those.

So she looked around a bit, to try if she could see a n y t h i n g in this darkness that might help her get out. And sure enough, as surprising and illogical as it was, there was a blue glow coming from ahead.

She slowly got up and went towards the glow, her arm hurting, but she couldn’t do anything about it. Once she got where the glow came from, she was mesmerized by the sight, because she didn’t expect that. It was a room with a desk, full of papers and notes. The floor also had torn pieces of paper here and there, With the trashcan full of them. Someone must’ve not been very happy with their work?

Jade thought this really reminded her of her own room when she was little. She would draw, write and none of them would turn out as she pleased, so her room was full of wasted, torn pieces of paper. And later she would be angry because her mother would make her clean that, which obviously, little kids have no time for, there were so many more interesting things to do, for example, playing with the little farm animal figures (Chickens,ducks , cows, pigs, sheep, horses, goats, dogs and cats made out of plastic) creating and making those animals have all sorts of dramas. Love, fights, races, families, arguments, hatred, anything was possible. Even a pig could fly.

But right now she can’t fly out of this place with her imagination. Well.. she can, but not physically.

Now, of course, she checked her arm, if it was bleeding, if it had something wrong that she could actually see with her own eyes. But seemingly, it looked quite ok. Jade just has to cope with it.

Now in that room she also noticed the blue glow coming from a capsule-looking machine. She had no idea how it was possible, since it was probably really old, and how it was possible for it to even be here? It seemed so illogical.

She walked to the desk to investigate the notes more closely. They were a bunch of stuff that Jade didn’t understand. Like some scientific stuff, words that were too hard to say for Jade.

On the wall there were some pictures. In one of them was a man with brown hair and beard. He was holding some small creatures that looked a lot like the monster she saw outside, but they were smaller and their gut wasn’t open. Actually, Jade thought she should call that creature something else, not a monster. The Shawn was what she had to call it from now on, because it probably was that.

In the other picture there was the same man, but next to him was a Shawn as tall as him. He seemed to not be afraid of them.

On the desk, there were also some kind of bottles in a wooden box, filled with some liquid. Each bottle had a really long and difficult name written on it. There was also a bowl and a mug, which had some mold in it, but Jade supposed it once was a coffee mug.

Then there was also a journal. To be more specific - Andrew Tale’s journal.

Jade had no idea who that was, but sure enough she wanted to find out! She opened the journal.

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My name is Andrew Tale. I would call myself a scientist, creator, maybe even an artist, because I created a creature no human eye has ever seen before!

I call it ‘Small-Hursbi’. They are little animals, with a mouth that can open really wide, their eyes are placed so that in the front view, you can’t see them, but think it’s nostrils are its eyes, giving you creeps, making you not want to deal with it.

It's really great to scare people off your property like that. Though, Small-Hursbies are no danger! They have the heart of a lovely dog, the strength of a horse and the intelligence of a human. Really, very smart creatures and also very emotional.

Now you may wonder why I created that interesting creature? Well, it came out of nowhere really. One day I was just sitting on the staircase outside the house. Since I live alone, with no family, far from the village, I have a lot of privacy and time to think. And one day while doing so, I just got an idea of how to create a living body. I wasn’t sure if it’ll work, but I sure wanted to try it out! So that’s how it began. I have some fellow scientist friends from the capital, they got me the stuff I needed for the experience.

Then later I would try and try different combinations until I got it right. It felt magnificent to create a living and breathing body! And the body does really have horse’s, dog’s and human’s DNA. Also the name Hursbi, came that it is a bit horse-a-like, not much, but in my opinion it has some similarities.

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This was something that Jade didn’t expect at all. It is actually named Small-Hursbi! And it was created by a scientist. A scientist lived in this house! This was truly impressive, she thought.

She turned the next page.

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I CREATED A NEW VERSION! A NEW AND BETTER VERSION OF THE SMALL-HURSBI - TALL-HURSBI.

It is bigger, stronger and scarier. It starts small, but grows REALLY tall! Even taller than me! I am so proud of myself! It is such a nice creation of mine!

The house is full of the little fellas, they walk around freely and they actually can remember things pretty well! They have almost the mind of a human! Though, I haven’t gotten them the ability to talk yet.

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The rest of the page is ripped apart as well as some other pages.

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OH NO WHAT HAVE I DONE?

I have some issues with the police and detectives. Some people from the village have realized that I am doing something weird. I gotta hide my little creations from them all! It is quite stressful, but it’s ok so far. The thing is that what I am doing is kinda illegal. And because the Hursbies have such different appearance, people think they are dangerous. It makes me angry.

While yes, I’ve noticed some of them have become quite aggressive lately, but that is probably because of me. I’ve been stressed and mad lately.

I will fix it. I only want good for those creatures.

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Some torn pages.

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I don’t know if I am disappointed or happy with what I invented now.

I had an idea to inject some DNA from birds into the little body that would soon grow to be a Small-hursbi with wings. So that’s what I did. I was giving it all so it would grow wings, but instead, its one leg was bird leg, rest was the same as the normal Hursbi. And ooh, I thought it was going to be a Small-Hursbi. But oh, no, it is the tallest and biggest hursbi I have! But it is smart, really smart. That’s what gives me hope for it. And well, as I also have started to give my Hursbies interesting names, I call this one Shawn.

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Now that sounds more like the creature Jade saw outside. That was really interesting. But now, there were a lot of torn pages until the last few ones. And it kinda felt like someone or Andrew himself tore those pages off and left ‘more important’ ones for someone else to read on purpose.

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I am f**ked. I had to go to the capital for a while today and of course, right on thai day some dumb kids from the village had to wander into the swamp. They probably heard all the rumors about my house and ‘’the creatures’’ so they wanted to see them for themselves. And they did, they did see them with their own eyes. And they saw their companion get brutally murdered by one. Of course they had to go and cry out for their mommy. Well.. I would too if that happened to me. But darn, I wish I stayed home! Because now the police are on their way! I probably can’t hide the Hursbies anymore, but I won't let them get them!

But ah.. And it was the biggest one, Shawn.. With the f**cking chicken leg. They were never supposed to attack people! And obviously not kill them! But I have to stay calm, what’s done is done.

Oh god.. I can hear the police at the door- gosh- they are very impatient today, they are slamming the door! Good thing I have a layer of metal covering my door and walls, it doesn’t break so easily, but still!

Ok, I will deal with those men, I will go out nicely. No fighting has to be done. We’ll see who wins.

GOD, DAMN IT.

I am sweating right now. I am covered in blood and I am SO goddamn ANGRY.

Those police came, they were really mad, but I just managed to calm them a bit- and even almost got on their good side! BUt then, of course, right at that moment, the Chicken legged freak had to show itself. And as I am writing this, as I am thinking of this all over again, I am in RAGE. Just pure ANGER towards that chicken legged- SHAWN.

The officers got frightened, one called Shawn ugly and disgusting and weird. Shawn took it into its very vulnerable heart and attacked! It killed the police officer and the others launched at Shawn, damaging it’s other foot, leaving it’s bird leg untouched. It was so horrible to watch for me since I created it. So I had no other choice but to go all out and kill the officers before it was too late.

I was so furious, because I didn’t want this to end this way. I cursed right at Shawn, without thinking of the coincidences. I know they are emotional and get very sad if someone says something bad about them. Now.. the thing is that Shawn is outside my labor room. It wants to get me. I would’ve never thought this would go so far.. Getting killed by my own creation.

I am just writing this as fast as I can, because the door will break soon. I hope that somebody finds this journal. That they find out about that cool creation of mine!

And in a way, I feel sad.. Because I think that none of my Hurbies and Shawn for sure won’t stay alive for that long. But it is ok. I mean dying is the best option now anyways, because I killed two officers. And my creation killed one officer and one kid as well. What a story! But now I’ll go.

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Just then Jade looked around, Imagined blood being on the floor, little things that someone had been murdered here. Maybe thrown against the capsule machine so its glass around it broke into shards. But how was Shawn's gut open? Maybe Shawn was the one who got thrown against the glass of the machine, sharp pieces of glass cutting its gut. But it was just Jade’s theories, she wasn’t really sure of what had happened. But it sure was tragic.

Description

Are you scared of the dark? Imagine you had just fallen 8 or so meters underground - you have no idea where exactly you are or how to get out. It is pitch black and you can’t see anything. Only thing you know and feel underneath your hands is wet and cold mud. What would you do? How would you find your way out?

Jade was the unfortunate one to get into a situation like that. What an unlucky day for her!

****************************************

Jade was analyzing in her brain what just happened for a few moments, until after the sad, sad realization, she started crying, sobbing even. She just saw a monster outside who killed all of the villagers. But then again, villagers probably wanted to kill her. They wanted to sacrifice her, hoping it would change anything. She remembered now how they were singing while walking to the old haunted house, carrying her, they TIED her up! How could they do such a thing to a poor human being that did nothing to them, in fact, Jade, as she was probably the wealthiest in the village, helped those villagers from time to time. She was just a bit different from them. She didn’t grow food, she just worked on the computer. Maybe that’s why? They just don’t like people that use that kind of fancy stuff, because it makes them feel like they are poor or jealous?

But that didn’t matter anymore anyways, since they were gone. ‘’For good.’’ Jade thought. In a way, she had felt some kind of connection between her and that monster earlier. Like she even felt a bit bad for it. It had its gut open, blood and organs revealed. Such a sad sight. But what was it? Did it live here? Was it going to kill her as well?

As Jade was feeling pretty calm already, she decided to get up and find out about this place she had fallen into. As she was leaning onto her hands to get up, she felt a cutting-through pain in her right arm, tears forcibly flowing out again: ‘’S**T!!’’ She cursed out from pain. It hurt really bad. Maybe she fell badly and wrung out her arm? Or she really broke it. This was like a cherry on top to this mentally (and physically) exhausting day.

After a few minutes or so, she felt like wanting to cry and think about her horrible life once over again, but she just had no tears left anymore, she was dry from those.

So she looked around a bit, to try if she could see a n y t h i n g in this darkness that might help her get out. And sure enough, as surprising and illogical as it was, there was a blue glow coming from ahead.

She slowly got up and went towards the glow, her arm hurting, but she couldn’t do anything about it. Once she got where the glow came from, she was mesmerized by the sight, because she didn’t expect that. It was a room with a desk, full of papers and notes. The floor also had torn pieces of paper here and there, With the trashcan full of them. Someone must’ve not been very happy with their work?

Jade thought this really reminded her of her own room when she was little. She would draw, write and none of them would turn out as she pleased, so her room was full of wasted, torn pieces of paper. And later she would be angry because her mother would make her clean that, which obviously, little kids have no time for, there were so many more interesting things to do, for example, playing with the little farm animal figures (Chickens,ducks , cows, pigs, sheep, horses, goats, dogs and cats made out of plastic) creating and making those animals have all sorts of dramas. Love, fights, races, families, arguments, hatred, anything was possible. Even a pig could fly.

But right now she can’t fly out of this place with her imagination. Well.. she can, but not physically.

Now, of course, she checked her arm, if it was bleeding, if it had something wrong that she could actually see with her own eyes. But seemingly, it looked quite ok. Jade just has to cope with it.

Now in that room she also noticed the blue glow coming from a capsule-looking machine. She had no idea how it was possible, since it was probably really old, and how it was possible for it to even be here? It seemed so illogical.

She walked to the desk to investigate the notes more closely. They were a bunch of stuff that Jade didn’t understand. Like some scientific stuff, words that were too hard to say for Jade.

On the wall there were some pictures. In one of them was a man with brown hair and beard. He was holding some small creatures that looked a lot like the monster she saw outside, but they were smaller and their gut wasn’t open. Actually, Jade thought she should call that creature something else, not a monster. The Shawn was what she had to call it from now on, because it probably was that.

In the other picture there was the same man, but next to him was a Shawn as tall as him. He seemed to not be afraid of them.

On the desk, there were also some kind of bottles in a wooden box, filled with some liquid. Each bottle had a really long and difficult name written on it. There was also a bowl and a mug, which had some mold in it, but Jade supposed it once was a coffee mug.

Then there was also a journal. To be more specific - Andrew Tale’s journal.

Jade had no idea who that was, but sure enough she wanted to find out! She opened the journal.

*********

My name is Andrew Tale. I would call myself a scientist, creator, maybe even an artist, because I created a creature no human eye has ever seen before!

I call it ‘Small-Hursbi’. They are little animals, with a mouth that can open really wide, their eyes are placed so that in the front view, you can’t see them, but think it’s nostrils are its eyes, giving you creeps, making you not want to deal with it.

It's really great to scare people off your property like that. Though, Small-Hursbies are no danger! They have the heart of a lovely dog, the strength of a horse and the intelligence of a human. Really, very smart creatures and also very emotional.

Now you may wonder why I created that interesting creature? Well, it came out of nowhere really. One day I was just sitting on the staircase outside the house. Since I live alone, with no family, far from the village, I have a lot of privacy and time to think. And one day while doing so, I just got an idea of how to create a living body. I wasn’t sure if it’ll work, but I sure wanted to try it out! So that’s how it began. I have some fellow scientist friends from the capital, they got me the stuff I needed for the experience.

Then later I would try and try different combinations until I got it right. It felt magnificent to create a living and breathing body! And the body does really have horse’s, dog’s and human’s DNA. Also the name Hursbi, came that it is a bit horse-a-like, not much, but in my opinion it has some similarities.

**********

This was something that Jade didn’t expect at all. It is actually named Small-Hursbi! And it was created by a scientist. A scientist lived in this house! This was truly impressive, she thought.

She turned the next page.

*********

I CREATED A NEW VERSION! A NEW AND BETTER VERSION OF THE SMALL-HURSBI - TALL-HURSBI.

It is bigger, stronger and scarier. It starts small, but grows REALLY tall! Even taller than me! I am so proud of myself! It is such a nice creation of mine!

The house is full of the little fellas, they walk around freely and they actually can remember things pretty well! They have almost the mind of a human! Though, I haven’t gotten them the ability to talk yet.

*********

The rest of the page is ripped apart as well as some other pages.

*********

OH NO WHAT HAVE I DONE?

I have some issues with the police and detectives. Some people from the village have realized that I am doing something weird. I gotta hide my little creations from them all! It is quite stressful, but it’s ok so far. The thing is that what I am doing is kinda illegal. And because the Hursbies have such different appearance, people think they are dangerous. It makes me angry.

While yes, I’ve noticed some of them have become quite aggressive lately, but that is probably because of me. I’ve been stressed and mad lately.

I will fix it. I only want good for those creatures.

**********

Some torn pages.

**********

I don’t know if I am disappointed or happy with what I invented now.

I had an idea to inject some DNA from birds into the little body that would soon grow to be a Small-hursbi with wings. So that’s what I did. I was giving it all so it would grow wings, but instead, its one leg was bird leg, rest was the same as the normal Hursbi. And ooh, I thought it was going to be a Small-Hursbi. But oh, no, it is the tallest and biggest hursbi I have! But it is smart, really smart. That’s what gives me hope for it. And well, as I also have started to give my Hursbies interesting names, I call this one Shawn.

**********

Now that sounds more like the creature Jade saw outside. That was really interesting. But now, there were a lot of torn pages until the last few ones. And it kinda felt like someone or Andrew himself tore those pages off and left ‘more important’ ones for someone else to read on purpose.

*********

I am f**ked. I had to go to the capital for a while today and of course, right on thai day some dumb kids from the village had to wander into the swamp. They probably heard all the rumors about my house and ‘’the creatures’’ so they wanted to see them for themselves. And they did, they did see them with their own eyes. And they saw their companion get brutally murdered by one. Of course they had to go and cry out for their mommy. Well.. I would too if that happened to me. But darn, I wish I stayed home! Because now the police are on their way! I probably can’t hide the Hursbies anymore, but I won't let them get them!

But ah.. And it was the biggest one, Shawn.. With the f**cking chicken leg. They were never supposed to attack people! And obviously not kill them! But I have to stay calm, what’s done is done.

Oh god.. I can hear the police at the door- gosh- they are very impatient today, they are slamming the door! Good thing I have a layer of metal covering my door and walls, it doesn’t break so easily, but still!

Ok, I will deal with those men, I will go out nicely. No fighting has to be done. We’ll see who wins.

GOD, DAMN IT.

I am sweating right now. I am covered in blood and I am SO goddamn ANGRY.

Those police came, they were really mad, but I just managed to calm them a bit- and even almost got on their good side! BUt then, of course, right at that moment, the Chicken legged freak had to show itself. And as I am writing this, as I am thinking of this all over again, I am in RAGE. Just pure ANGER towards that chicken legged- SHAWN.

The officers got frightened, one called Shawn ugly and disgusting and weird. Shawn took it into its very vulnerable heart and attacked! It killed the police officer and the others launched at Shawn, damaging it’s other foot, leaving it’s bird leg untouched. It was so horrible to watch for me since I created it. So I had no other choice but to go all out and kill the officers before it was too late.

I was so furious, because I didn’t want this to end this way. I cursed right at Shawn, without thinking of the coincidences. I know they are emotional and get very sad if someone says something bad about them. Now.. the thing is that Shawn is outside my labor room. It wants to get me. I would’ve never thought this would go so far.. Getting killed by my own creation.

I am just writing this as fast as I can, because the door will break soon. I hope that somebody finds this journal. That they find out about that cool creation of mine!

And in a way, I feel sad.. Because I think that none of my Hurbies and Shawn for sure won’t stay alive for that long. But it is ok. I mean dying is the best option now anyways, because I killed two officers. And my creation killed one officer and one kid as well. What a story! But now I’ll go.

*********
Just then Jade looked around, Imagined blood being on the floor, little things that someone had been murdered here. Maybe thrown against the capsule machine so its glass around it broke into shards. But how was Shawn's gut open? Maybe Shawn was the one who got thrown against the glass of the machine, sharp pieces of glass cutting its gut. But it was just Jade’s theories, she wasn’t really sure of what had happened. But it sure was tragic.