Accidentally A Trillionth

Away from this accursed world

Richard quickly picked up his phone again and read the message. His parent? His parent where involved with the abyss too?

He had a lot of questions running in his head that needed answers but there was no way he could get any. What was going on? What was going to happen to him? Disembody him? That is a worst way to die. If he drops the kingship too, he would die nevertheless.

What should he do? What choice would he make? Who sent him the message? Who should he trust?

He swallowed hard and made way for his room. Getting in, he locked up the door behind him and hurried to the mirror. He placed his two hand on the mirror table, trying to steady his breath.

He felt panic following in and that was almost making him go crazy. Slowly, he lifted his face and looked at his reflection in the mirror.

A smile crept to his face but not a beautiful smile as the one he had but a devilish grin that he could almost not recognize himself in the mirror.

He moved his hand across his hair and roughened it