As the saying goes, old blood runs slow, well that was what Rajani had painted on her walls.

She quite liked the implication of it, though what that was, she would leave to the individual's interpretation.

Being old allowed her to let her eccentric side take over most of her more, rational, mind. The one that whispered of fear in the dark, whispers behind her back. It should be silent or actually have something to say based on facts not beliefs.

But alas a tormented soul could never truly be silenced when left alone to fester.

A hallucination from time to time, though, was good for the heart. It prepared the organ for the inevitable heart attack it would have at some point.

Old age and all, she certainly didn't possess the spring of eternal youth and immortality. Now that would be a boring way to spend her retirement.

At the moment she was quite certain her mind had come up with yet another monstrosity.

Rajani had been jogging outside, well following one of the cats that were technically not hers, but whatever. When a blinding light had extinguished all the light posts next to the trail. Only to a moment later blaze again full power in an underground cave.

It was all quite ridiculous.

Whoever came up with this kind of nonsense.

Ah, yes, that would be here. Crazy old lady afterall.

A, honestly, incredibly stupid looking creature was waiting for her there. Talking to a man and woman in their late forties, who both startled at her own arrival.

Well, she certainly recognised a guilty conscience when she saw one. Those two were up to something.

Not something she was interested in for certain.

No, no she was way too old for those foolish sensibilities.

Let her hog her cats and enjoy the hedonistic pleasures of life.

Rajani, against her better judgement, took a step closer to the three beings currently residing in her dreamworld when a glass wall appeared. It separated her from the three beings, and it appeared, the two humans from each other.

What kind of shitty illusion was this?

Couldn't her mind at least come up with something interesting that worked to her advantage?

Banging on the wall to let her out didn't have any effect either. Apart from the fact that the man was looking at her with an increasingly annoyed look. Not that it bothered her.

The woman became more and more delighted the soorere the man looked.

Those two clearly knew each other, and did not relish in the acquaintanceship.

"Now, now. No need to be this aggressive. I mean no harm."

The creature walked through the glass wall separating her from the others and for the first time Rajani felt scared.

An illusion shouldn't speak.

"But alas, as you won't calm down before I give you something to think about, I've decided to share some knowledge with you. Valuable one."

With every step that the creature took, Rajani took one back.

She didn't like this.

This was not the way any of this was supposed to happen. Nor did she care whatever nonsense the being would spew at her. It was all just a figment of her imagination.

"I collected you, amongst others for a purpose. A higher destiny."

Yeah, bullcrap. She heard that kind of nonsense before, she couldn't care less about it. It was all about power tripping assholes benefiting from others' pain and misery.

"You are special."

Rajani knew that, oh she could never forget.

"Different."

Her Loáz had said the same, and for the first time in her life it had been positive. She knew this creature though, meant it in the exact same way everyone else had.

Wrong.

"You don't belong with the others I found."

As if she ever belonged, let alone with strangers brought together for a nefarious purpose by a divine creature.