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Sage
“I saw a little girl jumping from tree to tree. It was amazing, not humanly possible. But I know what I saw," I said. No one believed me. They’d made such a big deal over some weird cell phone thing that the kid dropped. It was the only thing that made my claim plausible, because the phone ran on systems far surpassing modern technology. It didn’t seem to have any seams, and no one wanted to open it. Nothing appeared to be powering it, and yet it’s screen was on, 24/7 it hadn’t turned off for a moment. It had symbols I could not understand, and everyone seemed to think it was some sort of code. But there was something about that girl. Something I couldn't tell them it was probably just the moonlight, but I was pretty sure about it...
“Can you describe her?” asked my interrogator. ...She had white eyes.
“She was pale, and looked around 7 or 8," I replied nervously.
“You mean she was human?” he asked.
“What do you mean? Why wouldn’t she be?” I asked.
“THAT’S ENOUGH!” Someone said, as they burst though the door.
“Well about the cell phone thing, can I have it? I’ll be the only one to recognize the person it belongs to," I asked, a little shaken by his sudden appearance.
“NO!” he shouted. I looked longingly at the cell phone on the table.
“It was a little girl. She’s probably worrying about it right now..," I said, my voice trailing off. I could remember it all now...
Last night
I had been sleeping, until I heard a little girl’s voice, from somewhere in the nearby forest, yelling something in a foreign language, although it was one of which I had not heard before, then I heard a scream. A long, loud, little girl’s scream, that shattered the peace of the night. A moment later, I saw something unbelievable. A silhouette. It was high in the air, and resembled a little girl in a dress, an eerie sight, between me and the moon.
Then as she fell back toward the ground, a miraculous thing happened, she flew back up in the air, and began repeating the process, moving from tree to tree, at an amazing speed. But she only got about 100 feet away from where she started, before something flew up at her, and she was spun off midair balance, falling to the ground. I ran over to the doorway of my house without a second thought, found a flashlight, put on my slippers, and ran down to the forest, still in my pajamas.
I turned on the flashlight, and ran quickly, I was almost there, when I saw that silhouette again, in the middle of a clearing. I pointed the flashlight at her, and approached her slowly, for she was in a panicked state, looking left and right, trying to see through the bushes. I made a rustle as I entered the clearing, and she slowly backed away from me, with a limp, saying things in that same foreign language. She tripped backward, and I ran over to help her. I set down the flashlight. From this close, I could see her more clearly. Her facial expression showed nothing but confusion and fear, and I don’t know how it came to be, but her eyes were... White. I looked at her with concern, and she looked more confused now, but less afraid.
She took something out of her pocket, it looked kind of like an iTouch or something, but the screen and the rest of it had were fused. It had no seams, and had no logo or anything like that on it. It was glowing. She put her thumb and pointer finger on it, and rotated them 180 degrees. Text appeared on it, again, in a foreign language, and tears came to her eyes. She threw the cell phone thing to the middle of the clearing, sniffed, looked around, then ran away, Saying the same thing over and over, but I didn’t know what it meant.
I looked around, and as her voice faded, I picked up the cell phone, then realized why she’d run away. Because I felt my eyes sting, and smelled something that was bad news for me: Smoke. I vaguely recognized this place, so I was able to run to the road before the fire got to me, but then I realized... My house was in the middle of that forest, and my parents had been asleep. As the truth dawned upon me, My eyes flooded with tears. I had become an orphan. I shivered in the cold as I slouched against a nearby tree.
Current time
But I wondered, was she worrying about it? The man walked over and reached down to pick it up, but then an alarm went off, and a moment later, everyone had left the room, leaving me alone with the phone thing. It began to glow, and my eyes grew wide. I took it out of the bag and hesitated. Is this really a good idea? I wondered. Oh well. I tried to remember what the little girl had done when it was glowing, then repeated the process, placing my thumb and pointer finger on the screen, then twisted it 180 degrees. It opened a message that was for some reason in English.
But the message was not something I was happy to read. It said: “Return this object to us. We’ll be waiting outside :)” I couldn’t tell who sent it, though. The sender’s name was in the same foreign language. I didn’t know what else to do. I passed through a few doors, turned a few times, and eventually found myself outside. There was a man in a tux walking toward me, he reached out to me, then looked to his left quickly, and swatted me out of the way. I found myself 10 feet away, clutching my stomach, having the wind knocked out of me. Once I’d caught my breath, I looked up to see the tux guy in combat with someone. I couldn’t tell who, at first, because she was moving faster than my eyes could keep up with. But upon further inspection, I realized that it was that girl again. The silhouette.
She dodged his every move, and eventually pulled his fist toward herself as she sidestepped, and caused him to fall over. She shouted something at me that I did not understand, sighed, then ran over to me, snatched the cell phone thing out of my hand, pointed at me, then at the ground, and ran off.
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