“Dinner!” One of the showfall employee’s called from the kitchen table, a small boy scampering into the room as he made soft airplane sounds while running around with a paper plane.
He smiled, sweet and innocent as he crawled up onto the chair that was far too large.
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“But Mamaaaaa….this food is gunky and grossssss….” The child whined as he kicked his legs, huffing out a small frustrated puff as he let his legs dangle off the side of the chair.
“Oh, sweetie…..you….know that’s not my name. Call me….your…ghoul! Your personal ghoul.”
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The employee cooed as she fed a spoonful of the protein slop to the child.
“Just because things look gunky and gross sometimes doesn’t mean it is….it’s good for you. See? There’s beauty in even the goopiest and gunkiest of things…” she smiled as she pat his head.
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“Oh…” he smacked his lips and smiled up at the woman, tapping his little hands on the kitchen table, looking up over the edge of it at his bowl.
“…..Maybe I will be like that when I grow up. Goopy, gunky….I will remember that!” He squealed as he jumped down from his seat.
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The employee watched as the small child ran off to the bedroom, smiling softly from behind her mask as she watched him go, letting out a small giggle at the little stomping of the child’s feet. She wasn’t his mother….far from it, biologically…but she cared for him as her own.
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Her feelings didn’t go unnoticed….and the next day….she was gone. The child sat in his room, waiting and waiting…minutes…hours before someone shoved food under the sheet put in place as a make-shift wall. Nobody was allowed in anymore….
To avoid ALL emotional attachment.
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The child sniffled as he silently grabbed the usual nutrient goop he was fed nearly every day, rubbing his big, teary eyes with his other fist. He missed his ghoul, his mother, or whatever she was. All he knew is she felt like home. Without her, it felt lonely….
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The child pressed his hand against the sheet wall, his tiny hands outline engraved into it as he kept it there, hoping and waiting for anything. Anyone.
And then, a soft voice answered back.
“I’m sorry….I wish I could be in there with you but….you have to be brave, okay?….”
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The child was confused as to why, but accepted it nonetheless, their hands pressing together through the sheet wall.
“See? Now. Whenever you feel scared, just come to this wall….and You will know that I am still here. Even though I’m not in there with you anymore..okay?..”
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“ ‘Kay, Mama…” the child said quietly, leaning his head against the sheet as the employee pat his head gently through it.
“It’s alright, Charlie…..go to sleep, okay?….” She said with a smile, despite the frigid pistol being pressed to the back of her skull.
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She’d never see him again after this, she knew that. But as long as he had some semblance of comfort and felt like he could take on the world before she was disposed of? Then she did her job. She wasn’t his Mother, biologically….but in this moment, she felt like she was.
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