Be My Guest - XIV

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Chapter Fourteen - Midnight Conversation

Knocking at my door

Woke me from my paralyzed doze

Left lying on the desk

Papers crumbled under my cheek

Knocking continued hammering the door

A moment I took to catch up what’s real

So tired, like I was drugged to sleep

Back crammed, weary, stiff and rigid.

Dragging myself to unlatch

Only to find Count

holding a wolf that’s tamed

With half opened eyes, I tried to make sense

But sudden glance of the monstrous wild

shook me alert from my drowsy sleep.

“My apologies, to wake you up

But you haven’t eaten

whole day and last night

Am worried am failing to be a courteous host

You deserve.

Please accept my apologies

and come down for dinner.”

“No, Sir…” I said with hesitation

“I am unaware,

when sleep spelled my eyes closed.

I kept lying on my desk

I am guessing whole day

maybe I need some stretch.”

Count grinned,

his long canine pressing his lips

I swear I saw blood on ‘em

No, am not sure

I was half-asleep

No sense in what I think I see.

I hastily said to divert my confused mind,

“Give me a moment to freshen up,

I will be right down”

“Of Course, Of Course, My lad.”

Count turned to leave

And pulled his leased pet.

After a while I joined him,

He was slipping through his wine,

Sitting beside fire

Humming a tune

And stroking his wolf

“You’ve met my sole companion here,

His name is Devil,

Isn’t it obvious, because he is all black.”

Something about this pet

Made me feel uneasy

Hazy remembrance becoming vivid

“Ah!! When am gonna get over

my haunting conscience,

It’s my journey to blame,

But why am having anxious feeling”

As I was thinking to myself

Count politely pulled my chair,

“So let’s have a seat at the table

And as I tell you a story

you enjoy your dinner.”

He walked to other chair afar,

while tamed animal followed him,

he sat and wolf laid at his feet.

“You’re afraid of Devil” He smiled and said

“Well, everyone is at the start.

He is big, black and people call him monster

But let me tell you a story

A story how Devil saved your life.”

I kept gazing at him

in shock and surprise,

Spoon dropped from my hand

into the bowl spilling my soup
Am paralyzed.

-- To be Continued...

Until Now in Be My Guest :

Chapter One - Boarding The 3:15 Train
Chapter Two - Solitude As I Had Asked For

Chapter Three - A Dream So Real
Chapter Four - Breaking Dawn to Break Free
Chapter Five - We Arrive!!
Chapter Six - 666
Chapter Seven - The Dread Room
Chapter Eight - The Dread Room Continues
Chapter Nine - Is Everything Real?
Chapter Ten - The Letter
Chapter Twelve - Wanderin' Among The Dead
Chapter Thirteen - Nightmares in the Castle of Dracula