the eyetaker

dreaming again

Galaxy Nattlie Hatten had always had some troubles with her mother. She was also fascinated with eyes since she was little, always asking what they looked like when you took them out, asking how they worked. But of course, at the time, she would always get the answer "find out yourself", so now she thinks about that ever so often. Now that she's older, her questions from when she was younger have been answered by science. But one of her questions hasn't been answered. What was it like to forcefully take out an eye?

Galaxy was brought back to reality by her mom bursting into her room. Galaxy looks, no glares, at the 40-something-year-old. She winced as she smelt a very familiar stench on her mother's breath. Alcohol. She thought, looking at her mother's figure. The woman's hair was in a mess, along with her clothes. She had an empty beer bottle in her right hand. Galaxy sighs, "Yes, Mother?" She asks. Her mother growls, "Don't 'Mother'--" she gets cut off by hiccupping, "--me! Why aren't you out of this house?!" She yells. "I-I don't have en-enough money.." Galaxy stammers, coughing a bit from the stench of alcohol.

Galaxy's mother growls, "Get out--" she hiccups again, "--soon!" She growls and brings the beer bottle over her head, then brings it down onto her daughter's head. Galaxy yelps as the glass shatter and digs into her skin. "You pathetic piece of--" the woman gets cut off by a glass shard is launched at her eye, missing of course, but digging into her temple. She screams in agony, but gets cut off by Galaxy kicking her stomach. The woman groans and falls to the ground, Galaxy pins her down, "I've had--" she gets cut off by coughing, "enough of this bullshit!" The 20-year-old yells.

Her mother's eyes dimmer as Galaxy hits her forehead with a lot of force. Blood comes flowing out of the woman's mouth. Galaxy smiles sadistically. She can get her answer. She looks at her mother's eyes, widened and dull. Her right-hand caresses the woman's cheek, slowly making its way up to the eye socket. She slowly takes out the eye from its socket, the muscle still attached to it. Galaxy yanks the eye, the muscle ripping, and blood splattering everywhere. Galaxy does the same with the other eye.

Sirens. Sirens everywhere... Galaxy's eyes widen as she realizes what she just did. She bolts for the door, stumbling and staggering because of her bleeding head. She runs for the nearby woods. Her vision becomes blurrier and blurrier until she can't see. The young woman falls to the floor. Blood pools around her head and neck