64. Oditomnia
<span style="font-weight:400">All the exhaustion from weeks of preparation to the very eventful night assaulted Tomoka in an instant. Her eyelids grew too heavy to keep open while her body refused her orders. With no other option she cuddled closer to the only source of warmth in this cold cave. Her muscles became loose as her breathing slowed down.
<span style="font-weight:400">Tomoka rarely had any dreams as instead she would just rx inside her mindscape. This time however, her mind was wide awake inside a different ce. Darkness consumed it all and yet she felt like she could see with absolute rity if there had been anything in there to see.
<span style="font-weight:400">A momentter riples coursed through the floor as if it was made of liquid. From the center of the riples a figure emerged. Tall andnky, almost bony in appearance. Its bodypletely ck with dark-green scales here and there. Its exposed ribs and skull, an ivory white. Humanoid in shape and yet all of its features were but human.
<span style="font-weight:400">From the lizard-like skull a pair of yellow eyes shone through the ck glossy straight hair that reached the floor. Those piercing eyes looked right at hers with amusement. Its jaws moved and words came out, desynchronized with them giving it an even creepier feeling.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Hello there” It spoke with a raspy and deep voice
<span style="font-weight:400">“General Kenobi” Tomoka responded out of pure reflex.
<span style="font-weight:400">“HAHAHAH” The strange creature beganughing madly as if this simple exchange had been the funniest thing it had ever witnessed. Tomoka for her part couldn’t help but chuckle at the silliness and bizarreness of the situation.
<span style="font-weight:400">“To think that you would be rxed enough to throw a star wars reference in this situation.” The creature’s tone was amused as itsughter died down.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Well, this is a weird dream and you feel somewhat familiar somehow” Tomoka’s instincts were giving her mixed signals. For one, they were screaming at her that whatever or whoever this is, is extremely dangerous. On the other hand she felt no ill will towards her.
<span style="font-weight:400">“You are familiar with me. After all, I am you, or a part of you” The creature’s skull creaked and moved, forming what could only be guessed to be a smile, a creepy one at that.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I am your anger, your hate, your resentment. I am the darkness resting within you. I am the gue that will rot the world by your will.” The skull continued to creak as the smile grew wider and wider.
<span style="font-weight:400">“I am one of three. One you already met, now you meet me. Who knows when you will meet the third” It continued its yful tone.
<span style="font-weight:400">“We came to be when your new life began. We as parts of you desire what you desire. I for my part am content resting within your soul. Providing passive aid by my mere existence. However, know that once you call me, I won’t stop no matter what. Rip and tear until it’s done.” The thing began sinking back into the floor as it spoke. By the time it finished, it had sunk up to its knees.
<span style="font-weight:400">“That answers the who but not the what. So what are you and what is this passive aid you are talking about.” Even though Tomoka felt a bit perturbed knowing that this thing lived inside her or rather that it was part of her she needed information so she asked.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What I am is but a fragment of the original fused and absorbed by you just like one of the others. Where youe from it did not exist, known as mere fiction. However, it and all of its ilk do exist elsewhere. I believe you have seen it before if only out of curiosity. A fragment of 682, SCP 682-”
<span style="font-weight:400">“The hard to destroy reptile” Before the entity could finish Tomoka whispered under her breath. The entity or rather, the fragment of 682 was right, she had known about that lizard. She had gone through the SCP wiki out of pure curiosity once.
<span style="font-weight:400">Looking back up Tomoka saw that the entity had sunken up to its neck by now. Calling it 682 felt wrong as it wasn’t the reptile, at least not entirely. Calling it entity also felt somewhat wrong.
<span style="font-weight:400">“What should I call you?” She asked out of curiosity, not expecting an answer.
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oditomnia” It answered as it disappeared
<span style="font-weight:400">“Oditomnia, odit omnia,tin, hates everything, I guess it fits” Tomoka chuckled a bit as her sight went ck.