May 8, 2021

I was looking after my niece who was playing in the garden. She was singing a song about catching butterflies as she ran back and forth across the grass. However I was watching her from around the corner of the house, which meant that half of the time my view of her was obscured. It was getting dark and the surveillance camera above the gate I was standing behind started making clicking noises.

There was a large eagle perched in the tree at the corner of our garden. I didn’t pay it much attention until it suddenly swooped down and out of sight. I froze, still not quite sure what had happened, until I heard my niece cry out.

I charged out of the gate and looked up to see that she was already high up in the sky, clutched by the eagle’s talons. All I could do was shout at the bird - I was at a complete loss as to what other choice I had. I heard the front door of our house unlocking, my mother had just arrived home. I cried that a bird had taken my niece and asked for help. I felt like a complete failure of an uncle.

The only think she could think of was that we’d probably be spending the entire night tracking down the eagle.

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A prophecy had foretold that my friend was going to die today. However these prophecies were actually set into motion by “enforcers” from another time and space. One such enforcer was making his way across the desert to our place on horseback in the middle of the night. He carried a large glowing talisman that was pinging for our location.

I arrived at my friend’s house just in time and locked the front gate. I told him to hide as I distracted the pursuer. I was looking over the gate from the second floor when the enforcer arrived. He paced back and forth in front of the gate before looking up and spotting me. “Do you usually snoop into your neighbors’ business?” I asked. He promptly looked down and walked to the stairs on the side.

I rushed up to the second floor and went into the bathroom to look for a weapon. The best I could find were a pair of mugs on the counter which I held in each hand. I hid behind the door as the enforcer came up the stairs. Once his back was fully towards me, I stepped forwards to smash a mug over his head from behind.