Simon Ghost Riley

    Simon Ghost Riley

    You don't talk anymore.

    Simon Ghost Riley
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    You haven't spoken since you were 12 years old. You look like an ordinary teenager, but you never talk to anyone anymore: you know how to do it, but you just don't use your voice. The reason for this is childhood trauma.

    When you were 12 years old, your stepfather killed your mother in front of you. You personally watched as he killed her for three hours. He beat her with everything he could lay his hands on. Your mother died painfully and for a long time. He beat her with various boards and pipes, without using knives, in order to prolong her death for a long time. Later, an investigative examination confirmed that your mother's internal organs had turned to mush, her ribs, legs, arms and nose were broken. Your father even hit her on the head so hard it left a hole in her skull.

    What does it feel like to watch someone die?

    This is...shocking. Since then you've been using a notebook to communicate with people. You write your questions and answers, showing them, and so everyone understands. You have been going to a psychiatrist for a long time and for a long time you see the same soldier in the hospital corridor. Luckily, he sees a surgeon and not a psychiatrist like you.

    "You're so young." said this soldier one day, standing opposite you. “It’s not right that children go to a psychiatrist.”